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, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop -- bringing together academic researchers, private- and public-sector experts, and representatives from public policy agencies -- to develop strategies for broadening and modernizing innovation information systems.
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Discussion and the subsequent summary document prepared by a rap porteur will be oriented to help the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics refine and prioritize its work in this area and to begin to prepare for OECD's September 2016 Blue Sky Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators Conference. account the role of innovation not only as it affects economic growth and productivity, but also as a mechanism for creating greater public good and meeting social challenges that are often nonmarket in nature.
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R&D funding and performance across all sectors of the economy -- business, academia, and, in the near future, on the nonprofit sector; the agency also collects analogous information on the federal and state governments. NCSES publishes information about the academic research infrastructure and about public understanding and attitudes toward science.
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Gawalt noted that, in commissioning this workshop as a follow up to the Capturing Change report, NCSES sought to tap into participants' expertise to inform its data collection activities and to refine and prioritize its plan to improve the breadth of innovation measures. With input from the workshop and elsewhere, he said the agency hopes to shape its innovation measurement agenda for the future in a way that will benefit the user community.
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As described in the workshop prospectus, researchers are seeking greater conceptual flexibility and bringing into scope how the successful exploitation of ideas affects the well-being of society more broadly, beyond the contribution to efficiency, effectiveness, or quality in the production of market goods and services. Knowledge creation has the capacity to influence nonmarket outcomes in areas such as health, environmental sustainability, and education.3 Similarly, while advocating for measurement of the transmission mechanisms of new knowledge and its impacts on economic development, OECD (2010)
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, John Marburger called for new work in a way that implicitly recognized the importance of this comparatively neglected front: "We need models -- economists would call them microeconomic models -- that simulate social behaviors and that feed into macroeconomic models that we can exercise to make intelligent guesses at what we might expect the future to bring and how to prepare for it." ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT In summarizing the workshop, the rest of this report is organized around the topical issues presented and discussed: • Assessing innovation measurement: How accurately are inno vation processes and resultant societal and economic outcomes measured? (Chapter 2)
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INTRODUCTION 7 tee's role involved planning and convening the workshop. The views contained in the report are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
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