Collaborative Research - MOD: The R&D "Lab" of the Future: Foundations for Modeling the R&D/Innovation Planning Process

本研究探讨决策者在面对未来研发投资决策时的资讯寻求与使用行为。 一些趋势使这些决定变得更加不确定，特别是“开放式创新”、科学和技术的全球化、技术和科学信息的来源日益多样化，以及全球将研究外包给发展中经济体。 有大量证据表明，工业决策者缺乏所需的信息;不知道现有的信息;或需要一个更具包容性的适当决策过程模型。 该研究揭示了行业决策者是否以及为什么选择全球研发而不是美国研发。 它通过研究作为全球创新者的公司如何使用有关科学和技术资源的信息以及其他与创新相关的数据来塑造其投资决策和竞争战略。 该项目是基于与创新管理研究中心和工业研究所（IRI）的合作，其250名成员共同资助和进行约75%的美国工业研究。这些公司的日常研发投资决策正在将传统的公司拥有的研发实验室转变为“未来实验室”（LOF）。每个公司自己的“LOF”可能包括传统实验室、合作实验室、虚拟实验室或外部资源网络，包括美国或国外的大学研究人员，以及政府或私人实验室、合作战略合作伙伴或模拟工具，从而增强甚至取代公司拥有的物理实验室。LOF很可能因行业和公司的竞争环境而异。该研究考察了参与者对这些决策的讨论，以及他们用来决定如何建立未来创新能力的信息资源。该项目分析了LOF的讨论，揭示了研发经理如何从长远和战略上考虑他们所做的事情。 该项目文件的信息寻求和信息使用的行为所展示的在线讨论的决策者关于研发“LOF”。此外，该研究还为决策者的投资承诺提供了一个窗口。更广泛的影响：企业研发主管现在正在做出决策，这些决策总体上将塑造LOF并影响美国国家创新体系。该项目记录了他们如何做出这些决策，他们目前正在使用什么信息，以及什么类型的数据可能是稳健决策所需的。项目结果向行业决策者和政策制定者通报了目前使用、未使用的数据和信息来源，以及目前无法获得但未来需要的数据。

This project examines the information seeking and using behaviors of decision makers who face decisions about their future R&D investments. A number of trends have made these decisions more uncertain, notably "Open Innovation," the globalization of science and technology, increasingly diverse sources of technical and scientific information, as well as the global outsourcing of research to developing economies. There is substantial evidence that industrial decision makers lack needed information; are unaware of available information; or need a more inclusive model of appropriate decision processes. The study sheds light on whether and why industry decision makers choose global R&D over U.S. R&D. It does this by examining how firms that are global innovators use information about scientific and technical resources, together with other innovation-related data, to shape their investment decisions and competitive strategies. The project is based on collaboration with the Center for Innovation Management Studies and the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), whose 250 members collectively fund and conduct about 75% of U.S. industrial research. These firms' day-to-day R&D investment decisions are transforming traditional company-owned R&D laboratories into the "Laboratory of the Future" (LOF). Each firm's own "LOF" may consist of a traditional laboratory, a collaborative laboratory, a virtual laboratory or a network of external resources, including university researchers in the U.S. or abroad, as well as government or private labs, collaborative strategic partners, or simulation tools thus augmenting or even replacing company owned physical labs. LOFs are highly likely to vary by industry and by the competitive environment of the firm. The study examines participants' discussions of these decisions and the information resources they use to decide how to build their future innovation capabilities. The project analyzes the LOF discussion to reveal how R&D managers think long-term and strategically about what they do. The project documents information seeking and information using behavior as exhibited in an on-line discussion by the decision makers about the R&D "LOF". In addition the research opens a window into decision makers' rationales for their investment commitments.Broader Impacts: Corporate R&D executives are making decisions now that will, in the aggregate, shape the LOF and affect U.S. national innovation system. This project documents how they are making those decisions, what information they are presently using, and what kinds of data might be desirable for robust decisions. The project results inform both decision makers in industry and policy makers about data and information sources presently used, not used, and data not presently available but desirable for the future.