the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … machine learning technique, Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP), which flexibly identifies patterns in text corpora. The … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …

have influenced the direction of innovation over the last four decades. Our findings suggest that the demography of …

Mastery learning - the process by which students must demonstrate proficiency with a single topic before moving on - is … implement it into a classroom setting. This study evaluates a program to encourage greater mastery learning through technology … coaching in how to use Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) for helping students follow a customized roadmap of incremental …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …