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

这个工作坊奖项的目的是介绍和讨论与工程设计实践和研究相关的认知科学和社会科学问题的未来方向。与将于2008年1月7日(星期一)在田纳西州诺克斯维尔举行的2008年CMMI受赠者大会同时，将举办一个题为“关于基于个人和团队的创新的讨论”的研讨会。讨论将是互动的。它将提供一个论坛，开始产生和探索创新中的近期、中期和长期研究需求，并将包括在工程设计中使用认知建模的相关练习，讨论参与者将参与其中。研讨会将讨论以下问题：一般而言，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？创新中的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的社区。这一讨论将对更多的潜在参与者产生立竿见影的影响，并开始他们思考更广泛问题和与之相关的进程。从长远来看，这种讨论将产生影响，因为社区开始向NSF撰写拨款提案，因为NSF组建了专注于创新的会议和工作组，最终将产生影响，因为它转让技术并影响美国的创新生产率。

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.