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About CNS-ASU
 Philip Shapira
Research Team Leader, RTTA 1, Center for Nanotechnology in Society
Professor of Public Policy
Philip Shapira is Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He teaches and conducts research on
industrial competitiveness, innovation and technology policy, economic and
regional development, and policy evaluation. Professor Shapira is senior
research fellow with the Georgia Tech Technology Policy and Assessment
Center and directs the Georgia Tech Policy Project on Industrial
Modernization.
Professor Shapira has directed research and policy assessment studies on
manufacturing technology adoption in Georgia and West Virginia, advanced
industry-university technology partnerships in Iowa, US industrial network
promotion and manufacturing technology partnerships, Appalachian Region
entrepreneurship initiatives, and university-industry research networks
and clustering. A current study for the National Institute of Standards
and Technology examines the impacts of information on US manufacturers.
Recent international studies include an evaluation of Japan’s Advanced
Materials Processing and Machining Technology Program for the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry (Tokyo); an assessment of membership of
intergovernmental research organizations for Forfás, Ireland; the Midsize
Cities Technology Development Initiative – a US-European learning network
to promote research commercialization and innovation; and development of a
sectoral knowledge economy measurement system in Malaysia. Currently, he
leads a Georgia Tech team with colleagues from the Fraunhofer Institute
for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) and Science and Technology
Policy Research (SPRU, Sussex University) on a study of Creativity
Capabilities and the Promotion of Highly Innovative Research in Europe and
the United States (CREA).
His authored and co-authored publications include: Federal-State
Collaboration in Industrial Modernization and Manufacturing Modernization:
New Policies to Build Industrial Extension Services; and other
articles on industrial modernization, restructuring and economic
development in European Planning Studies, Journal of Technology
Transfer, IEEE Spectrum, Research Policy, and Issues
in Science and Technology. Shapira is co-editor of: Planning for
Cities and Regions in Japan (1994) and the R&D Workers: Managing
Research and Development in Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States
(1995). With Gunter Lay and Juergen Wengel, he edited Innovation in
Production: The Adoption and Impacts of New Manufacturing Concepts in
German Industry (1999).
Professor Shapira’s recent publications include: “Machine Tools: The
Remaking of a Traditional Sectoral Innovation System,” (with J. Wengel) in
Sectoral Systems of Innovation, ed. F. Malerba, Cambridge Univ.
Press, 2004; “Evaluating a Large-Scale Research and Development Program in
Japan,” (with R. Furukawa) International Journal of Technology
Management, 2003 “Linking Research Production and Development Outcomes
at the Regional Level,” (with J. Youtie, S. Mohapatra) Research
Evaluation; and “Technology Policy Reinvented,” Research Policy,
2001. He is co-editor (with G. Fuchs) of Rethinking Regional
Innovation: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough, Springer, 2005;
and co-editor (with S. Kuhlmann) of Learning from Science and
Technology Policy Evaluation: Experiences from the United States and
Europe, Edward Elgar, 2003. Professor Shapira is an editorial board
member of European Planning Studies and associate editor of the
International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy.
Professor Shapira has served as a Congressional Fellow with the Office of
Technology Assessment of the United States Congress and a Visiting
Researcher with the Japan Institute of Labor (Tokyo). He is currently a
Visiting Researcher with the Fraunhofer ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany and a
Visiting Professor, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, Université
Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. He has taught in programs on R&D
evaluation at the University of Twente, Netherlands (since 2002), at MEXT,
Tokyo (2003), and at Georgia Tech (2004, 2005).
Professor Shapira holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and an MA in
Economics from the University of California, Berkeley; an MCP from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a DipTP from the Glos. College Art &
Design, UK.
Email:
ps25@prism.gatech.edu
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