An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a two-day public workshop to foster intellectual exchange among funded researchers of the National Science Foundations’ (NSF) Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program (SciSIP) and between these researchers and science, technology, and innovation policy practitioners. In keeping with the goals of the SciSIP program, this workshop will facilitate scholarly exchanges between SciSIP award recipients. It is intended to be the largest gathering of SciSIP principal investigators since the inception of the program in 2006. The fifth year of the program is the opportune time to showcase its research productivity and contributions to many long-standing questions regarding investment in and organization of science, engineering, and innovation activities in the U.S. and in other nations.

The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions and may also include poster sessions. The committee will develop the agenda for the workshop, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. Topics to be addressed at the event will highlight advances in the emerging field of the science of science and innovation policy. In particular, models, frameworks, tools, and datasets comprising the evidentiary basis for science and innovation policy will be the focus of the event. The workshop, therefore, will not only facilitate interdisciplinary discourse between researchers from a variety of academic disciplines and fields, it will also foster communication and learning between academicians and policymakers, thereby advancing the development of the SciSIP community of practice. Presentations by SciSIP researchers will focus on several themes, such as: return on investment models; organizational structures that foster accelerated scientific productivity; linkages between commercialized scientific knowledge and job creation; the roles of universities and government in technology transfer and innovation; technology diffusion and economic growth; non-economic impacts of science and innovation expenditures; regional and global networks of knowledge generation and innovation; mechanisms for encouraging creativity and measuring outputs and outcomes from transformative research; and development, manipulation, and visualization of data-representing scientific activities. A designated rapporteur will prepare an independently authored summary of the workshop.

PANEL
IRWIN FELLER (Chair), American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Pennsylvania State University
GREGORY J. FEIST, Department of Psychology, San José State University
BENJAMIN R. MARTIN, Science and Technology Policy Research, Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
LAUREL SMITH-DOERR, Department of Sociology, Boston University
MARIE C. THURSBY, Scheller College of Business, The Georgia Institute of Technology
JAMES HILTON TURNER, Jr., Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

STAFF
KAYE HUSBANDS FEALING, Study Director
CONSTANCE F. CITRO, Senior Program Officer
ANTHONY S. MANN, Program Associate

SciSIP Principal Investigators' Conference
September 20-21, 2012

National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20418

On behalf of the National Academy of Sciences, we are pleased to invite you to participate in an NSF-sponsored conference for grantees of NSF’s Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program. The conference is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, September 20-21, 2012, and will be held at the National Academies building at 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC. 

The two-day conference will facilitate scholarly exchanges between SciSIP award recipients and is intended to be the largest gathering of SciSIP principal investigators since the program’s inception in 2006. It is also designed to foster intellectual exchange among funded researchers of the SciSIP program and between these researchers and STI policy practitioners. Plenary sessions will feature path-breaking research by PIs and presentations by prominent policymakers and researchers from the natural sciences and engineering (the activities which the PIs study); concurrent sessions will facilitate discussions among PIs on specific research themes and methods. Poster and demonstration sessions will also provide opportunities for dialog between practitioners and researchers. It is hoped that young investigators will see this as an opportunity to become more engaged in this field.

Topics to be addressed at the event will highlight advances in the emerging SciSIP field, including models, frameworks, tools, and datasets comprising the evidentiary basis for science and innovation policy. Presentations by SciSIP researchers will focus on several themes, such as: (1) Implementing Science Policy (includes the politics of science policy); (2) Scientific Discovery Processes; (3) Human Capital; (4) Organizations, Institutions, and Networks; (5) Innovation; (6) Data Extraction and Measurement; (7) Mapping Science; and (8) Assessment and Program Evaluation.

Contents

COMMITTEE BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Project Scope (see above)

Membership Roster (see above)

Panel Biographical Sketches

COMMISSIONED PAPERS

Erin Leahey, University of Arizona

Shaping Scientific Work: The Organization of Knowledge Communities

Dean Keith Simonton, University of California, Davis

Assessing Scientific Creativity: Conceptual Analyses of Assessment Complexities

Albert H. Teich, George Washington University

Making Policy Research Relevant to Policy

CONFERENCE DOCUMENTS

Conference Invitation

Agenda

Logistics Sheet

Participant List

Presenter and Discussant Biographical Sketches

Poster Sessions Information

Directions to the National Academies Building

Floor Plan of the National Academies Building

PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

(Please note that the presentations included here may be subject to copyright restrictions of the individual presenters.)
Rajshree Agarwal - Career Choices and Earnings Trajectories of Scientists.
Gary Bradshaw - Science, the Little Bang, and Edison.

Timothy Sturgeon and Clair Brown - The 2010 National Organizations Survey: U.S. Organizations, Global Value Chains, and Domestic Jobs.

Ernst Berndt and Iain Cockburn - Price Indexes for Clinical Trial Research: A Feasibility Study.

Noah Feinstein, Daniel Kleinman, and Greg Downey - Who and When is Private? Exploring the Edges of Public-ness at an Interdisciplinary Research Institute.
Erik Fisher - Lab-based Socio-Technical Collaborations: Possibility, Utility, and Meaning.
Lee Fleming - Disambiguation and Co-authorship Networks of the U.S. Patent Inventor Database.

Lee Branstetter and Matthew Higgins - Killing the Golden Goose: Accelerated Genetic Entry and the Incentives for High-Risk Pharmaceutical R&D.

Lisa PytlikZillig, Alan Tomkins, and Myiah Hutchens - Developing a Social-Cognitive Model of Public Engagement with Science & Innovation Policy.

Julia Lane - Big Data, Science Metrics and the Role of Science Policy.

Catherine Eckel, James Murdoch, and Tammy Leonard - Energy Policy for the Poor: An Assessment of Subsidized Weatherization Programs to Reduce Residential Energy Usage.

Eric Stuen, Ahmed Mobarak, and Keith Maskus - Skilled Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations in U.S. Doctoral Programs.

Leah Nichols - Applications of the NSF Portfolio Explorer: A Topic Model Approach to Portfolio Assessment.
M-H. Carolyn Nguyen - Modern Computing: Technology, Policy, and the Ecosystem.
Jason Owen-Smith - From Bank, to Bench, to Breakthrough: The Effects of Funding Policies on Human Stem Cell Science.
Susannah Paletz - Unpacking Social and Cognitive Processes in Science and Engineering Team Innovation.
Amy Pienta - The Role PI & Institutional Characteristics Play in Shaping Data Sharing Behavior.
Alan Porter and Ismael Rafols - Interdisciplinarity: Its Bibliometric Evaluation and Its Influence in Research Outputs.
Bill Ribarsky - Analyzing the Impact of Science Funding Programs on the Evolution of Research Fields.

Daniel Sarewitz - Extracting and Assessing the Public Values of Science and Innovation Policies or Moving from Outputs to Outcomes in SIP Assessment.

Scott Stern - The Impact of Open Impact Institutions and Policy on Life Sciences Research.
Ping Wang and Jia Sun - Community Ecology for IT Innovation.
Kim TallBear - Constituting Knowledge Across Cultures of Expertise and Tradition: Indigenous Bio-scientists.
Mark Zachary Taylor - Does Culture Matter for National Innovation Rates?

Lin Jiang, Jerry Thursby, and Marie Thursby - Communication, Collaboration, and Communication in Scientific Research.

Hyun-Woo Kim, Zhen Lei, Brian Wright, and John Yen - Mapping Academic Patents to Papers.

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Catherine Eckel, Tammy Leonard, and James Murdoch Poster Abstract

Bill Ribarsky, Wenwen Dou, and Yang Chen Poster Abstract

Information from the Sponsor 

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SciSIP awards, dynamically updated: http://1.usa.gov/scisip
SciSIP solicitation, dynamically updated: http://bit.ly/scisipsol
Special Issue of JPAM [Summer 2012: Volume 31, No. 3] on Science Policy: http://bit.ly/SciSIPJPAM (free online until December 2012)

Longer URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.2012.31.issue-3/issuetoc

Contact information for incoming SciSIP Program Officer:
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
jlrosenb@nsf.gov
(703) 292-7285 [temporary]