Workshop: Discussion on Individual and Team-Based Innovation; Knoxville, Tennessee; January 7, 2008.

该研讨会的目的是介绍和讨论与工程设计实践和研究有关的认知和社会科学问题的未来方向。 2008年1月7日，星期一，在田纳西州的诺克斯维尔举行了2008年CMMI被授予者会议，会议期间将举行一个题为“关于个人和团队创新的讨论”的研讨会。“讨论将是互动的。 它将提供一个论坛，开始，以产生和探索近，中期和长期的创新研究需求，它将包括在工程设计中使用认知建模的相关练习，其中一个讨论与会者将参与。 研讨会将讨论以下问题： 一般来说，创新过程、工具和方法的最新水平是什么？ 多学科研究（工程学、认知科学和社会心理学）在创新中的作用是什么？创新工程研究与工程教育的关系是什么？本次研讨会的研究成果将扩大精通这一领域工作的研究人员群体。 这一讨论将立即影响到更多的潜在参与者，并开始他们对更广泛问题的思考和联系。 从长远来看，这一讨论将产生影响，因为社区开始向NSF提交赠款提案，因为它形成了专注于创新的会议和工作组，最终，因为它转移了技术并影响了美国的创新生产力。

The objective of this workshop award is to introduce and discuss future directions for issues in cognition and social science as related to engineering design practice and research. In conjunction with the 2008 CMMI Grantees Conference to be held Monday, January 7, 2008, in Knoxville, TN, will be held a workshop entitled "Discussion on Individual and Team-Based Innovation." The discussion will be interactive. It will provide a forum to begin to generate and explore near, intermediate, and long-term research needs in innovation and it will include a relevant exercise in the use of cognitive modeling in engineering design, one in which discussion attendees will participate. The workshop will address the following questions: What is, generally, the state-of -the-art in innovation processes, tools, and methods? What are the roles of multidisciplinary research (engineering, cognitive science, and social psychology) in innovation? and What is the relationship of engineering research in innovation to engineering education?The results of this workshop research will expand the community of researchers who are proficient in work on this area. This discussion will have immediate impact in reaching a larger set of potential participants and begin their process of thinking about and relating to the broader issues. Longer term, this discussion will have impact as the community begins to write grant proposals to NSF, as it forms conferences and working groups that focus on innovation, and, eventually, as it transfers technology and impacts innovation productivity in the US.