People often look to technology-based advancement as the key to achieving and maintaining economic competitiveness. This belief often resonates through national policy at the highest levels. Does investing in high technology really provide a competitive advantage? Since 1986, researchers at...

Recognizing prior research and reflection, we offer a definition of interdisciplinary research (IDR) that focuses on integration of concepts, techniques and/or data. We note that this need not entail teaming. Building upon this definition, we discuss its implications for accurate measurement. We...

How can national capabilities to develop emerging technologies be measured? We use INSPEC and EI Compendex class codes to examine 33 countries' research and development activity. We select candidate emerging technologies based on the Rand Corporation's categories. We screen these to tally those...