Using Human Resources Data to Assess Research Utilization and Innovation

The STEP Board is organized a workshop and prepared a report examining how various of kinds of data on scientists and engineers (e.g., career paths, mobility, and the structure of work), perhaps in combination with publication, patenting, patent citation, R&D spending and other data, could shed light on increasingly prominent issues of research productivity, the implications of changing patterns of federal and industrial R&D and innovation, and the significance of interactions among private and public sector institutions. For federal government research agency managers, data on employees, trainees, grantees, and laboratory research associates could illuminate the economic contributions of public investments in research and technical personnel. In particular, the results could be useful for compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act. The workshop was held in the Lecture Room of the National Academies Building on November 23, 1999.

Meetings:

Workshop on Using Human Resources Data to Assess Research Utilization and Innovation (November 23, 1999, Washington, DC)