Workshop to Assess the Potential for Promoting Technological Advance

评估促进技术进步潜力的研讨会

• 批准号: 9812672
• 负责人: Proctor Reid
• 金额: $ 6.51万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-15 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9812672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Assess; Potential; Promoting; Technological

9812672 Reid The National Academy of Engineering, responding to a request from the President's National Economic Council proposes holding a 11/2 day workshop to study the advisability of using government sponsored prizes as a way of inducing and simulating technological innovations of significant societal impact. History has several examples of the offering of a substantial prize leading to important and needed technological advances. For example, the chronometer, essential to accurate navigation was developed this way in the 18th century. More recent examples can also be found, Current Federal procurement rules do not allow this practice. The workshop is to examine the usefulness of this practice and the conditions under which it might be used effectively.

9812672 Reid：应总统国家经济委员会的要求，美国国家工程院提议举办一个为期11/2天的研讨会，研究利用政府资助的奖项作为诱导和模拟具有重大社会影响的技术创新的一种方式的可行性。历史上有几个这样的例子，即颁发巨额奖金导致了重要和必要的技术进步。例如，对精确导航至关重要的计时器就是在18世纪以这种方式发展起来的。最近的例子也可以找到，现行的联邦采购规则不允许这种做法。讲习班的目的是审查这种做法的有用性，以及在何种条件下可以有效地使用这种做法。