Workshop on Developing a National Research Infrastructure for the Study of Innovation and Change in Organization, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, July 23, 2008

国际和平研究所提议组织和主办一次研讨会，以确定建立经验基础设施所需的关键要素，以推动对科学和创新政策的关键组成部分之一--组织--的研究。这将为科学研究影响创新、业务绩效和组织变革的科学和创新政策提供经验基础。研讨会将于2008年7月23日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的NSF会议空间举行。此外，还将于2008年7月24日举行2008年考夫曼创业与创新数据研讨会的会前会议。研讨会的组织形式为五个高度结构化的会议，共持续一天，最多35名参与者，约20名参与者以某种方式参与该计划(作为演讲者、小组主持人或讨论促进者)。所有课程都将包括一次发言讨论。这三个组织者将既是推动者，又是传播者智力价值该提案的主要智力价值在于，研讨会寻求开发的新数据和工具将为科学政策提供一个基于证据的平台。它将(1)允许研究人员检查创新过程？既有成功也有失败？以及(2)在适当的经济实体层面上探索业务绩效和业务动态。更广泛的影响在更广泛的影响方面，美国竞争法案和商务部(DOC)的创新指标报告强调了对创新和业务绩效进行更好衡量的必要性。通过促进变革性研究，促进对创新及其与政策和商业战略的关系的科学理解，新的基础设施将回应这些高级别的关切。

The PI's propose organising and hosting a workshop to identify the key elements necessary to build an empirical infrastructure that will advance research on one of the key building blocks of science and innovation policy: organizations. This will provide an empirical basis for the scientific study of science and innovation policies that affect innovation, business performance, and change in organizations. The workshop will be held in NSF meeting space in Arlington, Virginia, on July 23, 2008. It will be adjoined by a Pre-Conference for the 2008 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data on July 24, 2008The workshop organization will be in the form of five highly structured sessions lasting a total of one day and with a maximum of 35 participants, with about 20 participants involved in the program in some way (as speaker, panel moderator, or discussion facilitator). All sessions will include a floor discussion. The three organizers will act as both facilitators and rapporteursIntellectual meritThe primary intellectual merit of the proposal is that the new data and tools that the workshop seeks to develop would provide an evidence based platform for science policy. It would (1) permit researchers to examine the innovation process ? both successes and failures ? and (2) explore business performance and business dynamics at the level of the appropriate economic entity. Broader ImpactIn terms of broader impacts, the need for better metrics of innovation and business performance was underscored by the America COMPETES Act and the Innovation Metrics report of the Department of Commerce (DOC). By fostering transformative research that would advance the scientific understanding of innovation and its relation to policy and business strategy, the new infrastructure will respond to these high-level concerns.