Measuring and Tracking Research Knowledge Integration and Transfer
PI Alan Porter   Start Date September 15th, 2008

Enhanced Science of Science and Innovation Policy depends on better metrics. You can't manage what you can't measure. This is particularly true for interdisciplinary research, which currently has few generally agreed-upon measures with acceptable degrees of accuracy. Researchers at the University of Sussex have begun to address this problem by developing a conceptual framework to gauge research diversity. The current project builds upon that conceptual framework to empirically test metrics that gauge the interdisciplinarity of particular bodies of research. [Read More]

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program

ERAWATCH
PI Phillip Shapira   Start Date January 1st, 2007

The Technology Policy and Assessment Center, in association with the European Commission is part of a Network of Strategic Intelligence Providers (ERAWATCH), a joint initiative of the European Commission's Directorates General for Research and Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). The project aims to provide better knowledge and understanding of national research systems, policies and the environments in which they operate in order to improve policy making in the research field in Europe. [Read More]

MOD:Models of International Research Collaboration
PI Susan Cozzens    Co-PI Marilyn Brown    Start Date January 1st, 2008   NSF Award No. 0738184

As world research capacity expands rapidly, the United States science and engineering enterprise finds itself in a new position. Decades of U.S. dominance in science and engineering research helped create U.S. leadership in emerging industries such as information and biotechnology. But U.S. science and engineering research are likely in coming decades to take their place among many strong players on a global scene. Europe, Japan and Korea are already international powers in research and development, and China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are rapidly expanding their capabilities. Under these circumstances, the capacity to monitor the world research front and absorb research knowledge from other countries is more important than ever for the United States.
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Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

Distributional Assessment of Emerging Technologies: Case Studies in the Americas
PI Susan Cozzens    Start Date October 1st, 2007   NSF Award No. 0726919

Despite decades of strong economic growth, the problem of global inequality is still large. Within-country inequality is clearly on the rise, and most poor nations are not closing the global gap in standard of living. Emerging technologies are a strategic research site for examining the interaction of inequalities between countries and inequalities within countries. Conceptually, emerging technologies are defined in this project as new and research-based, with potential broad impact. Operationally, the project studies the actual distributional consequences of selected biotechnologies and information and communication technologies (ICTs). [Read More]

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

World Water: Case Studies in Research as a Redistributive Force in the Knowledge Society
PI Susan Cozzens   Start Date June 15th, 2006   NSF Award No. 0551777

This project, funded by the Science and Society Program, seeks to address the question of how science and technology policies play a role in improving the quality or reducing the cost for a basic service. If such research for development is successful, it can lower costs and increase quality of life and can build technical capacity in developing countries, leaving them better prepared for endogenous innovation in the future. To explore how research for development lives up to these possibilities, this research studies the effect o international research efforts on an important development-related area, water supply and sanitation. The study examines case studies in Africa and Latin America. [Read More]

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation