Archive of posts filed under the Federal Stimulus category.

American models of technology transfer for developing countries?

Awhile back, I wrote a paper on how the differing models that the federal government has taken to develop new technology from universities versus government laboratories provide helpful comparisons for developing countries as they draft their intellectual-property laws. The paper was published as The American Models of Technology Transfer: Contextualized Emulation by Developing Countries, 6 Buff. Intell. …

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How is 2009 federal stimulus to NYC being used?

I was surprised at first by this info about how money provided to NYC through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is being used. But then I realized that most of the stimulus money is going to private parties, not the city, and isn’t counted in these stats. I still didn’t know, however, that so much …

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