TPAC - Technology Policy and Assessment Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology

High Tech Indicator (HTI)-based papers

Porter, A.L., Jin, X-Y, Newman, N.C., Johnson, D.M., and Roessner, J.D., High Tech Competitiveness: Spotlight on Asia, Journal of Management and Social Sciences, to appear. Requires member login to view.

Porter, A.L., Roessner, J.D., Jin, X-Y., and Newman, N.C., Measuring National 'Emerging Technology' Capabilities, Science and Public Policy, Vol. 29, No. 3, p. 189-200, 2002. Requires member login to view.

A Comparison of Recent Assessments of the High -Tech Competitiveness of Nations by David Roessner, Alan L. Porter, Nils Newman, and Xiao-Yin Jin

Changes in National Technological Competitiveness: 1990-93-96-99 by Alan L. Porter, J. David Roessner, Xiao-Yin Jin, and Nils C. Newman

Measuring national 'emerging technology' capabilities by Alan L Porter, J David Roessner, Xiao-Yin Jin and Nils C Newman

1996 Indicators of Technology-Based Competitiveness of Nations by J. David Roessner, Alan L. Porter, Nils Newman

HTI-based Publications Listings

Research Knowledge Utilization in University Education

A Systems Model of Innovation Processes in University STEM Education

Technology Opportunities Analysis (TOA) papers

Porter, A.L., and Newman, N.C., "Patent profiling for competitive advantage: Deducing who is doing what, where, and when" in H.F. Moed, W. Glanzel, U. Schmoch (eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research, Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2005. Requires member login to view.

Alan L. Porter, M. Simone M. Alencar, Marcelo F. M. Persegona, and Roberto de Camargo Penteado Filho, Leandro Innocentini Lopes de Faria, José Angelo Rodrigues Gregolin. "Tech Mining: Multiple Ways to Exploit Science, Technology & Information" in Medina, J. et al. (Eds.), Technological foresight and Competitive Intelligence as Complementary Tools, to appear. Requires member login to view.

Watts, R.J., and Porter, A.L., "Mining Conference Proceedings for Corporate Technology Knowledge Management," International Journal of Technology Management, to appear. Requires member login to view.

Technology Opportunities Analysis by A.L. Porter and M.J. Detampel

Automated extraction and visualization of information for technological intelligence and forecasting by Donghua Zhu, Alan L. Porter

Factor Analysis Optimization: Applied on Natural Language Knowledge Discovery (Robert J. Watts, Alan L. Porter, and Donghua Zhu

Automated extraction and visualization of information for technological intelligence and forecasting by Donghua Zhua and Alan L. Porter

Innovation Forecasting by Robert J. Watts & Alan L. Porter

Text Mining for Technology Foresight by Alan Porter

Whither Nanotechnology? A Bibliometric Study by Alan Porter & Scott Cunningham

Iraqi Engineering: Where has all the research gone? by Alan L. Porter

TOA Papers Listing

Research Profiling

Porter, A.L., "How ‘Tech Mining’ Can Enhance R&D Management," Research Technology Management, Vol. 50 (No. 2), 15-20. Requires member login to view.

Global research competition affects U.S. output by Diana Hicks

The Four Literatures of Social Science by Diana Hicks -Forthcoming in the Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research, ed. Henk Moed, Kluwer Academic.

Research Profiling: Improving the Literature Review by Alan L. Porter, Alisa Kongthon, Jye-Chyi (JC) Lu

Utilization of Empirical Technology Analyses

Porter, A.L., and Cunningham, S.W., "Just-In-Time Technology Analysis Support," International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 34, Nos. 3/4, 2006, 319-339. Requires member login to view.

Why Don't Technology Managers Want Our Knowledge?(HTML) (DOC, password required) Presented at the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT), Miami, 2000. By Alan L. Porter, Nils C. Newman, Robert J. Watts, Donghua Zhu, Cherie Courseault, Webb Myers, Elmer Yglesias

TIPing the Scales: Technology Information Products for Competitive Advantage Submitted to California Management Review. By Alan L. Porter, Elmer Yglesias, Alisa Kongthon, Cherie Courseault, Nils C. Newman

Technology Foresight

Porter, A.L., "New Methods for Technology Futures Analyses," in M.H. Sherif and T.M. Khalil (eds.), Management of Technology: New Directions in Technology Management, Elsevier, 2007, 453-464. Requires member login to view.

Porter, A.L., and Ashton, W.B., "United States Case Study (on Technology Foresight)," in L. Georghiou, J. Harper, M. Kennan, and I. Miles (Eds.), International Handbook on Foresight and Science Policy: Theory and Practice, Edward Elgar Publishers, to appear. Requires member login to view.

Porter, A.L., "Technology Foresight: Types and Methods," International Journal of Technology Management, Vol.?, No. ?. Requires member login to view.

Technology Futures Analysis: Toward Integration of the Field & New Methods by Technology Futures Analysis Methods Working Group -to appear in Technological Forecasting & Social Change

Electronics Manufacturing in 2020 by D.A. Cauffiel & A.L. Porter

Innovation Forecasting by Robert J. Watts & Alan L. Porter

Text Mining for Technology Foresight by Alan Porter

"The Future of Technology Forecasting" by Vary Coates, Mahmud Faroque, Richard Klavans, Koty Lapid, Harold Linstone, Carl Pistorius & Alan L. Porter

Nanotechnology

Alencar, M.S.M., Porter, A.L., and Antunes, A.M.S., "Nanopatenting Patterns in Relation to Product Life Cycle," Technological Forecasting & Social Change, to appear. Requires member login to view.

Youtie, J., Iacopetta, M., and Graham, S., "Assessing the nature of nanotechnology: can we uncover an emerging general purpose technology?" (ABSTRACT) Journal of Technology Transfer, 2007.

Research Evaluation

Garfinkel, M., Sarewitz, D., and Porter, A.L., "A Societal Outcomes Map for Health Research and Policy," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 96, No. 3, 8-13, 2006. Requires member login to view.

Impact Assessment

Porter, A.L., "Integrating Impact Assessment," Impact Assessment & Project Appraisal, Vol. 24, No. 2, 86-88, 2006. Requires member login to view.

Porter, A.L., "Assessing Global Warming," Impact Assessment Newsletter, 2007. Requires member login to view.

Interdisciplinary Research Process and Measurement

Porter, A.L., Cohen, A.S., Roessner, J.D., and Perreault, M., "Measuring Researcher Interdisciplinarity," Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1, 117-147, 2007. Requires member login to view.

Porter, A.L., Roessner, J.D., Cohen, A.S., and Perreault, M., "Interdisciplinary Research: Meaning, Metrics and Nurture," Research Evaluation, Vol. 15, No. 3, 187-195, 2006. Requires member login to view.