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Proceedings Of The 1998 Annual Leadership Symposium, Portland State University. Institute Of Portland Metropolitan Studies

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The Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies was created to better connect the resources of higher education to the issues of the six-county Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area, and to bring new attention to critical regional issues. Annually the Institute organizes a Leadership Symposium to bring citizens and leaders together to hear new information and ideas about the metropolitan area and its issues, and to discuss and identify new courses of action.

A Framework For Estimating The National Economic Benefits Of Atp Funding Of Medical Technologies, Sheila A. Martin, Daniel L. Winfield, Anne E. Kenyon, John R. Farris, Mohan V. Bala, Tayler H. Bingham

Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies Publications

The Economic Assessment Office (EAO) of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) seeks to measure the economic impacts of ATP’s funding of high-risk, enabling technologies and also to increase understanding of underlying relationships between technological change and economic phenomena, to further the program’s ability to achieve its mission. To this end, the EAO compiles data, conducts economic studies, and commissions studies by outside research organizations and economists. The study described by this report was carried out by the Center for Economics Research at Research Triangle Institute (RTI), under contract to the ATP.

The RTI study was intended to achieve four goals: …