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INNOVATION TRAPProject Head: Prof. Dan Breznitz Innovation Trap is a four-year international project, which began in 2007 with funding from the S. Neaman Institute, the Sloan and Kaufmann Foundations and the Enterprise Innovation Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. The first purpose of this grant is to conduct an international comparative study on the impact of innovation and local economic growth in our new world of global decomposition (also known as de-localization, fragmentation, and/or off-shoring of production/services activities). To accomplish these goals there has been close cooperation with both industry leaders and government officials in Israel, the US and Ireland, Finland, France, Israel, China, and India on the issue of the internationalization of R&D and the appropriate technological entrepreneurship policy development. These efforts have also led to several research projects which are part of the now fully developed current research project – the innovation trap – as well as funding to continue this work for the next three years from the Irish government, the Ford Foundation, Georgia Institute of Technology and the OCS Foundation. Feasibility studies have been conducted in China (where a full-scale study of the IT industry and government policy is now being conducted), India (with a focus on the IT-enabled services industry), Israel (looking at entrepreneurship and innovation in both high technology and traditional industries, France (Ile-de-France region), Ireland (specifically looking at the domestic industry), and the US (with a focus on within migration of new entrepreneurial high tech companies, and a full-scale case study of several states now been conducted). Papers emanating from these efforts are either forthcoming or under review in leading journals such Challenge (a paper on entrepreneurial industrial policy), Governance (on the privatization of industrial R&D); Industrial and Corporate Change (On competition strategy and public policy in the development of high technology industries in emerging economies); Research Policy (on technological entrepreneurship policy), as well as in the popular press in Ireland and the United States. In addition, the results of this study have been presented at various conferences, including the SMS Special Conference on Entrepreneurship 2007, APSA 2007, ASA 2007, AOM 2007, ISA 2006 and 2007, DRUID 2007, and SASE 2007; and invited lectures were given in Helsinki, Atlanta, Dublin, Paris, Washington DC, San Francisco, Boston, Beijing, and Bologna. In the context of its international collaborations, the S. Neaman Institute is involved in several other international activities: |
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