Cultivating Research Talent through Publicly-Funded R&D Program

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009This presentation was part of the session : Science and Innovation WorkforceThis material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. ©2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.This paper is to utilize a fully integrated database about university researches in Taiwan and then analyze the collaboration patterns of commissioned projects granted by National Science Council. The contours of collaboration styles in knowledge diffusion among the scholars would also be sketched.Science & Technology Policy Research and Information Center, NAR