About

Juan D. Rogers is a Professor and Associate Chair at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. His role involves leadership within the school, and he is involved in research related to public policy. Specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Business
• Computer science
• Public relations
• Political science
• Sociology

Selected publications

• Conceptualizing Metascience Observatories

  2025-07-10

  articleOpen access

  Science can serve as a powerful source to inform decision-making at the national and international levels. It can also be a source of reflective information: that is, to provide decision -makers with information about the science and technology (S&T) ecosystem. Scientific information about science—i.e., metascience—can provide decision makers and their advisers with evidence needed to direct research activities, allocate resources, and build collaborative relationships (soft power diplomacy). Several institutions around the world are dedicated to the observation of science—i.e., metascience observatories. However, these vary significantly in scope and function, and little is known about the degree to which they directly inform diplomatic decision-making. Therefore, the goal of this research is first to provide an empirical basis for conceptualizing metascience observatories. Through this work, we can clearly delineate metascience observatories from other types of institutions. The generated registry of metascience observatories will then serve as a platform for understanding the role of metascience in diplomacy.

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• Global innovation cooperation and governance: evidence from China

  Science and Public Policy · 2024-12-16 · 1 citations

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  Abstract Global innovation cooperation and governance have become increasingly critical against the backdrop of rapid digital transformation and evolving international dynamics. The purpose of this special section is to examine the pivotal role of collaborative innovation frameworks amid the swift proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, emphasizing the importance of harmonized international regulations and institutional arrangements with evidance from China at the firm, industrial, and regional levels. By situating AI as both a driver of economic competitiveness and a potential source of regulatory challenges, the special section underscores the need for robust global partnerships and policy coordination. Such initiatives not only facilitate shared research and development efforts but also foster an environment conducive to ethical, transparent, and sustainable innovation. Drawing on recent advancements and ongoing policy debates, this special section provides a comprehensive overview of the mechanisms and strategies necessary to enhance cross-border collaboration. Ultimately, the findings highlight the imperative of building an inclusive, adaptable, and future-oriented governance system, ensuring that innovation and technological progress contribute to equitable and enduring global development.

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• Catch-up of CoPs in GIS and IVC: evidence from Chinese CNC machine tools

  Science and Public Policy · 2024-12-09 · 1 citations

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  Abstract In the era of innovation globalization, realizing technology catch-up poses a challenge to late-coming countries. This paper integrates the conceptual framework of the global innovation system (GIS) and the model of the innovation value chain (IVC) and takes the high-grade computer-numerical-control(CNC) machine tools’ catch-up in China as a case study to analyze the characteristics and mechanisms for the catch-up of complex product systems (CoPs) in different globalization historical stages from the perspective of research and development (R&D), transformation, and commercialization. We find that strengthening the GIS–IVC-based resource integration of innovation for R&D, pilot and demonstration plants, and commercialization is the key factor in promoting the catch-up of CoPs in emerging economies, and effective guidance of innovation policies is essential for promoting the catch-up of CoPs in the global era.

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• Why modify or terminate contracts for critical supplies? Evaluating federal purchasing of PPE following COVID-19

  International Public Management Journal · 2024-03-21

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  Contract managers change contracts to respond to unforeseen events and to improve the likelihood of securing critical supplies. This study employs data from the General Service Administration's SAM.gov Data Bank on over 8,000 contracts to examine the prevalence, reasons for, and timing of contract modifications and terminations in federal purchasing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the first year of the COVID-19 public health crisis. Results show that modifications that transform transactional contracts to more collaborative designs were utilized for some of the highest-risk contracts and were associated with increased obligations, indicating that collaborative designs led to more purchasing of PPE. Competitive selection increased the likelihood of termination, the rate at which terminations occurred, and deobligations, indicating that the approach increased the costs of administration without improving the likelihood of securing supplies. A substantial portion of modifications and terminations occurred within the first forty days of delivery, revealing how contract management capacity was needed in the early stages of critical supply acquisition.

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• An Analysis of Federal Purchasing of Personal Protective Equipment in the Aftermath of COVID-19 (WITHDRAWN)

  Academy of Management Proceedings · 2023-07-24

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  Contract managers change contracts to respond to unforeseen events and to improve the likelihood of securing critical supplies. This study examines the prevalence, reasons for and timing of contract modifications and terminations utilized in federal purchasing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the first year of the COVID-19 public health crisis. Modifications that transform transactional contracts to more collaborative designs were utilized for some of the highest-risk contracts and were not associated with terminations, indicating that collaborative designs may improve the securing of PPE. Competitive selection increased the likelihood of termination and the rate at which terminations occurred, indicating that the consideration of rival bids did not improve the likelihood of securing PPE and increased the costs of contract administration. Agency characteristics also explain why contracts were changed in the purchasing of PPE.

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• System-level insights into public funding of research from emerging economies

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2023-03-22

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  Funding scientific research requires adequate capabilities of funding entities to design and implement the instruments to channel those resources effectively. Furthermore, recipients of research funding must have the right attributes to use allocated resources in a way that achieves the objectives of the funding policies. The obviousness of these statements belies a relative lack of attention to the specific attributes and capabilities needed on both sides of the research funding equation. This chapter explores this issue by comparing four cases of emerging economy countries, two in South America and two in Central Europe. The cases show that, even in the presence of increased funding, the lack of proper capabilities and attributes of both funding and performing entities undermines their ability to achieve their scientific research potential. This challenge is also relevant to developed nations in their efforts to maintain their level of research performance.

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• Key factors affecting the promotion of researchers of the Argentine Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)

  Research Evaluation · 2021-11-30 · 5 citations

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  Abstract The evaluation system is an important component of the institutional arrangements that may shape the career trajectories of researchers. Using logistic regression and recursive partition models, we analyze the resulting key individual level factors that seem to play an important role in the promotion of researchers through the research evaluation system of the Argentine National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in two selected fields, namely, the basic and applied sides of the molecular biology and biotechnology fields. The data are from 599 researchers who are members of the scientific and technological “research career” of the Council. We analyze the promotion through the first two stages of the process, namely, promotion from “assistant investigator” to “adjunct investigator” and from the latter to “independent investigator” for the entire cohort of candidates eligible during years 2013 and 2014. We find that time in grade (a strong normative requirement of the system), a moderate number of publications of international quality, evidence of mentoring the future generation of researchers, and registered technological production are the main factors that predict researchers’ promotion. Conversely, the specific academic profile, early external funding, gender, time from graduation, and postdocs abroad do not have a significant effect.

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• Estudio de línea base del gasto público en ciencia, tecnología e innovación en el Perú

  LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2020-03-01

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  Presenta el “Estudio de línea base del gasto público en ciencia, tecnología e innovación en el Perú”, que se basa en el análisis y la interpretación de los resultados del anexo 01 del análisis del gasto público (AGP) en ciencia, tecnología e innovación (CTI). Este estudio consiste en el análisis del presupuesto de CTI del Gobierno del Perú y se realizó para instrumentos existentes en años comprendidos entre 2012 y 2018. Los datos para este análisis fueron proporcionados por dos fuentes. En primer lugar, los datos de 118 instrumentos de 140 identificados fueron resultado del levantamiento de información del proyecto “Línea de base del gasto público en ciencia, tecnología e innovación en el Perú”, a cargo del consultor Jorge Fernando Chávez Álvarez. En segundo lugar, datos sobre otros 51 instrumentos fueron proporcionados directamente por Concytec, relacionados con Innóvate Perú del sector Producción. El total de instrumentos de CTI que se incluyeron en este análisis fue de 164. Entre los resultados principales del análisis se tiene que existe una gran concentración del gasto de CTI en un número pequeño de instrumentos. Complementariamente, hay un gran número de instrumentos con presupuestos escasos. También se encontró mucha superposición de instrumentos enfocados a creación de conocimiento, investigación de excelencia y beneficiarios relacionados con la investigación, las universidades y los institutos de investigación. Finalmente, las características del conjunto de instrumentos sugieren que las posibilidades de impacto sobre la economía del gasto en CTI se ven disminuidos dados los desafíos de gestión que implican los escasos recursos disponibles en la mayoría de los instrumentos, así como la dispersión del enfoque de los instrumentos utilizados.

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• Influence of Task Complexity in Shaping Environmental Review and Engineering Design Durations

  Journal of Management in Engineering · 2018-08-22 · 8 citations

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  Timely completion of environmental reviews for transportation projects has been highlighted as a sore point for performance management by public agencies and industry alike. However, despite its importance, few academic studies investigate project-level performance during the environmental review and engineering design or examine which factors influence it significantly. In this study, we observed 560 transportation projects that the Georgia Department of Transportation completed from 2011 to 2015. We modeled distinct processes for three National Environmental Policy Act document types—programmatic categorical exclusion, categorical exclusion, and environmental assessment—and investigated detailed durations for environmental review activities associated with regulatory agency relation management, consultant relation management, and internal project management. Adopting task complexity theories, we then examined the influence of four dimensions of task complexity on project performance, measured by the overall durations of the environmental review and engineering design. By investigating performance empirically, this study contributes to methodological advancement and theory development in studies on environmental review. This research contributes to the body of knowledge through the creation of task complexity models to empirically examine the effects of different dimensions of task complexity on environmental review and engineering design durations.

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• Analysing managerial perceptions of when and how to structure public involvement in public-private partnerships

  Local Government Studies · 2018-05-09 · 11 citations

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  Previous research highlights what managers perceive to be the purposes of public involvement in public-private partnerships (PPPs) and the need for addressing stakeholder concerns unique to PPPs. Yet, we have little evidence of how particular modes of participation benefit particular goals of participation in this context. Through canonical correlation analysis (CCA) of survey data collected in the U.S., this study examines the modes and sequencing of 14 public involvement activities in respect to 10 goals of public involvement in this context. The results indicate that selections among modes of participation are contingent upon when they are introduced. Respondents prefer widening stakeholder involvement early in the project development phase and during the contract implementation phase, but not during the later phases of contract design. Respondents also assign more value to engaging local citizens than their respective political leaders, particularly at mature stages of the PPP’s implementation phase.

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Frequent coauthors

• Philip Shapira

  10 shared

• Jan Youtie

  7 shared

• Barry Bozeman

  Arizona State University

  6 shared

• Gordon Kingsley

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  6 shared

• Jill Fantauzzacoffin

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  4 shared

• Eric J. Boyer

  The University of Texas at El Paso

  4 shared

• Jay David Bolter

  4 shared

• Thomas Heinze

  Friedrich Schiller University Jena

  4 shared

Education

• PhD, Science and Technology Studies

  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  1996

• Electrical Engineer, Engineering

  Universidad de Buenos Aires

  1981

Awards & honors

• Member of the Committee on Opportunities in Science (COOS) f…
• Member of the Fulbright specialist roster on public policy a…