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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON IMPROVING FEDERAL SCIENCE FUNDING OUTCOMES: PROCESS EXPERIMENTATION AND EVALUATION—A WORKSHOP
PAULA E. STEPHAN (Chair), Professor Emerita of Economics, Georgia State University
PIERRE AZOULAY, International Programs Professor of Management and Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CHIARA FRANZONI, Professor, School of Management, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
KAYE G. HUSBANDS FEALING, Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
ADAM B. JAFFE, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Brandeis University
KARIM R. LAKHANI, Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
DANIELLE LI, Class of 1922 Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
HEIDI WILLIAMS, Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Staff
GAIL E. COHEN, Director
RENEE DALY, Senior Program Assistant (as of April 2023)
DAVID DIERKSHEIDE, Program Officer
GRETE GANSAUER, Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Fellow
CLARA HARVEY-SAVAGE, Financial Business Partner
ERIN H. ROONEY, Senior Program Assistant (as of December 2023)
SUMAIRA USMAN, Financial Business Partner
Consultant
STEVE OLSON
BOARD ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC POLICY
ADAM B. JAFFE (Chair), Brandeis University
NOËL BAKHTIAN, Bezos Earth Fund
BRENDA J. DIETRICH (NAE), Cornell University
BRIAN G. HUGHES, HBN Shoe, LLC
PAULA E. STEPHAN, Georgia State University
SCOTT STERN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JOHN C. WALL (NAE), Cummins, Inc. (Retired)
JOHN L. ANDERSON (NAE), Ex Officio Member, National Academy of Engineering
VICTOR J. DZAU (NAM), Ex Officio Member, National Academy of Medicine
MARCIA McNUTT (NAS/NAE), Ex Officio Member, National Academy of Sciences
Staff
GAIL COHEN, Senior Director
DAVID DIERKSHEIDE, Program Officer
CLARA HARVEY-SAVAGE, Financial Business Partner
ERIN H. ROONEY, Senior Program Assistant
SUMAIRA USMAN, Financial Business Partner
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Contents
EXPERIMENTS IN PEER REVIEW AND FUNDING
2 Experiments by U.S. Federal Agencies
SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF PATENT APPLICATIONS
MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF ASSISTANCE FOR PATENT APPLICATIONS
3 The International Context: New Models for Supporting Science
FOSTERING EXPERIMENTAL INNOVATION AND GROWTH POLICY
EXPERIMENTATION AT THE SWISS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
TARGETING INNOVATION IN GERMANY
4 Nongovernmental Perspectives on Experiments
PEER-REVIEW EXPERIMENTS IN THE NOVO NORDISK FOUNDATION
REAL-WORLD EXPERIMENTS IN A MEDICAL CONTEXT
5 Challenges with Experimentation in U.S. Federal Agencies
EXPERIMENTATION AT THE TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS DIRECTORATE
6 Structuring Support for Experimentation in Government
FOSTERING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EFFORT
EXPERIMENTING WITH CHANGE AT THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
7 Models for Institutionalizing Experimentation in U.S. Federal Agencies
OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPERIMENTATION AT THE U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
INNOVATION IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
B Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Speakers
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