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Susan Cozzens
Associate Dean
Ivan Allen College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Susan E. Cozzens is the associate dean for research in the Ivan Allen College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cozzens has been active in science and innovation policy for more than 25 years. She has served the U.S. National Science Foundation as a policy analyst, the director of the Office of Policy Support, and a member of the senior leadership team. She has consulted widely within the United States and around the world on science and innovation policy issues. Cozzens is past editor of Research Evaluation and Science, Technology, & Human Values. She has also served as senior consulting editor for Science and Public Policy. She has published more than 50 articles and book chapters and authored or edited four books. Currently, Cozzens research focuses on innovation and inequality, with a concentration on science and innovation policies in developing countries.
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Alan L. Porter
Professor Emeritus
School of Public Policy and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan L. Porter is professor emeritus of the School of Public Policy and Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE). His primary concentration is technology forecasting and assessment. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1967 and a Ph.D. in engineering psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. He served on the University of Washington faculty through 1974, joining the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1975. Porter co-directs the Technology Policy and Assessment Center. He is also director of R&D at Search Technology, Inc. With Fred Rossini, Porter co-founded the International Association of Impact Assessment, where he served as editor of the Impact Assessment Bulletin, secretary, executive director, and president. He has authored more than 200 professional publications, including A Guidebook for Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis (1980); Science, Technology, and National Policy (1981); Interdisciplinary Analysis and Research (1986); Forecasting and Management of Technology (1991; second edition in preparation, 2009); and Tech Mining (2005).
Currently, Porter’s research focuses on text mining of science and technology information resources (i.e., research publications, awards, citations, and patents). Porter’s NSF funding includes ongoing work with nanotechnology text data mining to help profile research areas and forecast emerging opportunities. He is involved with a new NSF project focusing on measuring and tracking research knowledge integration. |
