Jan L. Youtie, Ph.D. is Manager of Policy Services with Georgia Tech’s Community, Policy, and Research Services division of the Enterprise Innovation Institute. She is an adjunct associate professor with Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy and co-founder of the program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She holds a doctorate in political science from Emory University.

 

Dr. Youtie’s research is focused on manufacturing competitiveness, technology-based economic development, emerging technology assessment (nanotechnology), and innovation and knowledge measurement.
 

She has been a principal investigator in studies sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, European Commission, United Nations Development Programme and the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia, METI Japan (in association with the Mitsubishi Research Institute), Aspen Institute, Southern Technology Council, Georgia Department of Economic Development, Intellectual Capital Partnership Program of the University System of Georgia, Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education, Georgia Office of Planning and Budget. Dr. Youtie has been appointed to serve as a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Ninth Year Review Panel and the MEP evaluation working group. She served as a working group participant in the National Innovation Initiative of the US Council on Competitiveness. Dr. Youtie is a senior researcher with the Research and Innovation Systems Assessment component of the Center for Nanotechnology and Society (CNS-ASU).