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Identifying Technology Flows and Spillovers Through NAICS
Coding of ATP Project Participants
John Nail and Hayden Brown
NISTIR 7280
April 2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Authors
Abstract
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
- Project Overview
- Economic Studies Involving the Trace of Technology Flows
- Report Organization
2. Identifying and Measuring Spillovers
3. Creation of the NAICS Data Set
- Data Sources
- Simple Model of Economy Flows
- The NAICS Assignment Process
- Examples of the NAICS Assignment Process
4. Data Analysis
- Large Increase in Number of Industries Covered by ATP Projects
- Distribution of Own-Industry for ATP Participants
- Distribution of Use-Industry for ATP Participants
- Do ATP Participants' Own-Industries Generate Technology?
- Evidence of Multi-Use Technologies
- Evidence of Infrastructural Technologies
- Do ATP Participants Intend to License ATP-Funded Technology Outside of Own-Industry?
- DO Applications Outside Own-Industry Remain Commercially Viable?
- Other Ways to Use the Data
- Appendices and Discussion
5. Key Finding and Suggestions for Future Research
- Key Findings
- Suggestions for Future Research
References
Appendices
A. Factors Affecting Market and Knowledge Spillovers
B. ATP Commercialization Portfolio, by Sector
Boxes
1-1.A Note on Terminology: Own- and Use-Industries
2-1 Economic Spillovers and Technology Flows
3-1.SIC and NAICS
3-2.Key NAICS Attributes
Figures
2-1.Private and Social Returns from R&D
3-1.Simple Model of the Economic Pathways through Which Different
Industries Produce Goods for Each Other
4-1.Distribution of Own-Industry for ATP Participants by Six-Digit NAICS Code
4-2.Distribution of Use-Industry for ATP Participants by Six-Digit NAICS Code
4-3.A Demonstration of Potential Economic Benefits to the State of Idaho
Resulting from Spillovers of an ATP Project
4-4.A Demonstration of Potential Economic Benefits to the Nation Resulting
from Spillovers of an ATP Project
Tables
3-1. Summary of Decision Process to Assign Own-Industry NAICS Codes and Use-Industry NAICS Codes: Three Examples
4-1. Number of Unique NAICS Codes Assigned to ATP Projects, 1999-2004
4-2.Percentage of ATP Participant Firms in Industries Characterized as
Technology Employers and/or Primary or Secondary Technology
Generators, 1999-2004
4-3.Percentage of ATP Participants That Propose at Least One Commercial
Application Outside of Their Own-Industry, 1999-2004
4-4.Percentage of Firms Licensing ATP Technology Outside of Their
Own-Industry and Whether the Commercial Application Is Still Viable
4-5.Percentage of Applicants Reporting Their Commercial Application as
Still Viable
4-6.Percentage of Commercial Applications That Are Still Viable
Outside of a Participant's Own-Industry
Date created: May 25, 2006
Last updated:
June 1, 2006
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