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Panel on Research and Development Statistics at the National Science Foundation
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Current Information
July 24, 2003 Workshop
Agenda
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Background
A committee operating under the auspices of CNSTAT is conducting an in-depth and broad-based study to look at the National Science Foundation's Science Resources Statistics (SRS) Research and Development Statistics Program. The goal is to look at how R&D surveys are currently conducted and how they should be conducted to capture the country's R&D activities over the coming decade.
The CNSTAT committee is conducting its work in cooperation with a separately appointed panel of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) over a 24-month period. The STEP panel will plan and conduct a workshop and write a report focusing on the issues of composition, structure, sourcing and location, particularly in the context of the industrial R&D and federal funds surveys, covering the majority of U.S. R&D funding and performance. The STEP panel's report will inform the deliberations of the CNSTAT committee
The CNSTAT committee will review existing R&D data collection systems and relevant literature, commission appropriate papers, attend and participate as appropriate in the STEP panel workshop; identify gaps in current methodology, integrate the report of the STEP panel with the committee's own extended findings, and hold a separate workshop on R&D measurement methodology before preparing its report. The committee's report, to be issued approximately 20 months after the start of the project, will have findings and recommendations including overall priorities among the possible improvements in the data collection system. The recommendations shall be sensitive to the means and feasibility of proposed changes in the data collection system.
The project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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Roster
- LAWRENCE D. BROWN (Chair), Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania
- JOHN L. ADAMS, Senior Statistician, The RAND Corporation
- WESLEY M. COHEN, Economics and Management, Duke University
- FRED GAULT, Director, Statistics Canada
- JAY HAKES, Director, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
- BRONWYN HALL, Economics, University of California Berkeley
- CHRISTOPHER T. HILL, Vice-Provost, George Mason University
- STEVEN KLEPPER, Economics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- JOSHUA LERNER, Jacob H. Schiffer Professor, Harvard Business School
- BARUCH LEV, Stern School of Business, New York University
- GARY MCDONALD, Enterprise Systems Lab, General Motors Research and Development Center
- NORA CATE SCHAEFFER, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin
- RICHARD VALLIANT, Statistical Group, WESTAT
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Staff
- Tom Plewes, Study Director
- Marisa Gerstein, Research Assistant
- Tanya Lee, Project Assistant
- Dan Melnick, Consultant
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