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From page 5...
... There is no standing mechanism for the NSF, Department of Commerce, and other agencies to acquire expert advice on issues related to innovation data collection, integration, and reporting. A specific suggestion was made that a technical advisory committee to the Science Resources Studies Division of the NSF should be reinstituted.
From page 6...
... For example, information relating activities such as R&D and patenting to performance is useful to decision makers in both the public and private sectors, although more for large than for small firms and at different levels of data aggregation ranging from the plant and the firm to the industry and the economy as a whole. The responsiveness of firms to inquiries, and especially their cooperation in providing new information, depends on managers' perceptions of the direct utility to the firm of the collected data as well as the firm's stake in better-informed public policy.
From page 7...
... U.S. and other national surveys of manufacturing technology adoption and application have produced enterpriselevel data useful in understanding the relationships among new technology applications, firm performance and productivity, and workforce characteristics such as skill levels, wages, and job turnover.


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