This paper investigates the effect of tax incentives on R&D activities in Taiwanese manufacturing firms. Specifically, we assess the potential R&D-enhancing effect on recipients of R&D tax credits compared with their non-recipient counterparts. Moreover, the potential difference in the R&D-enhancing effect between high-tech and non-high-tech firms is also examined. Utilizing a firm-level panel ...

he links among trade, technological changes, and worker earnings have been the subject of intense research during the past few decades. The current literature on this subject shows that trade liberalization and technological changes are the main drivers of demand for skilled workers and a rise in the wage premium. In the present article, a panel of 134 Iranian manufacturing industries over the ...

Keith R. Bisset, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech Jiangzhuo Chen, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech Suruchi Deodhar, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Xizhou Feng, NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, M...

When a major technological innovation spreads out in both high-tech and middle/low-tech industries, new clusters appear, develop and grow at the expenses of “older” historical industrial sites. The literature has, under various labels, recognised three main stages of cluster development: an initial stage sparked by an initial exogenous, shock; a second stage driven by Marshall’s (1920) agglomer...

The United States Marine Corps has some of the most advanced weapons systems and training in the world, yet they make extensive use of “low tech” training tools. Sand table exercises and tactical decision games are used by Marines all over the world, at sea and on land. Although the U.S. Department of Defense has a nearly $18 billion annual training budget, the Marines choose to teach decision ...

Using novel data collected from a career intelligence website, we study whether and why high-tech firms rely more heavily on non-wage benefits, such as free meals, transportation subsidies, and athletic facilities (“work-related perks”). We find that employers engaged in IT innovation are more likely to offer work-related perks, but not more traditional non-wage benefits such as health insuranc...

The overall objective of this paper is to describe ongoing research programs in the Medical Informat-ics Laboratory in the Bioengineering Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Current research projects are highly interdisciplinary, spanning such areas as computer vision and image processing, ar-tiicial intelligence, and computer graphics and visu-alization. In general, the emphasis of ...