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At the request of the National Science Foundation (NSF) , the National Research Council established a committee to provide insight into how transformative research in the geographical sciences evolved in the past so that it can be encouraged in the future.
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RECENT TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATIONS IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES To examine the development and diffusion of transformative ideas in the geographical sciences, the committee reviewed five areas of geographical research that can be considered transformative over the past 50 years. These five examples are identified under the broad rubrics of political ecology, spatial social theory (i.e., social theory that is directly informed by and related to geography)
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In addition to these observations, the committee developed several overarching findings during its casestudy reviews: Finding 1: Transformative innovations can arise from a wide variety of individuals and groups, from a wide variety of intellectual sources, including older and long-ignored ideas, and through revolutionary and evolutionary paths. Finding 2: An open innovation system in academic sciences and research can encourage the exchange of information, even among competing groups, and helps to achieve the desire of the nation, funding agency, or foundation for the most rapid, productive, and efficient academic research sector.
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The Research Culture Recommendation 2: The Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) program should continue to emphasize the National Science Foundation policies and programs that are designed to increase ethnic, age, and gender diversity among its awardees.
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Referring to one of the most important advances in computer sciences in recent years, as measured by its impact on society, the National Research Council report Furthering America's Research Enterprise (NRC, 2014, p.
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These include finding better ways of preparing young geographical scientists for transformative research, identifying ways in which the research culture of the geographical sciences can be made more conducive to transformative research, addressing aspects of the process of career advancement that inhibit transformative research, and exploring novel approaches to the development and review of proposals for funding transformative research. None of these recommendations can directly address the concerns raised in this report on the current context and the overall state of national science policy and performance.
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will help to ensure a larger proportion of highly educated individuals has the capacity to advance the geographical sciences and to offset both the potential declines in the absolute numbers of such highly trained individuals and the increasing competition by such students trained in other countries (Challenges 3 and 4)
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