EAGER: What is the Economic Impact of NSF-Funded Research? Connecting the Dots Between Scientific Discovery and Entrepreneurship

EAGER： NSF 资助的研究的经济影响是什么？

• 批准号: 1144054
• 负责人: Jonathon Cummings
• 金额: $ 28.44万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1144054&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; What; Economic; Impact; NSF

Broadly defined, entrepreneurship is the discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of profitable opportunities. In the context of NSF-funded science and engineering research, entrepreneurship can range from a graduate student starting a new company based on knowledge gained through an NSF-funded graduate research fellowship program to researchers licensing a new technology developed through an NSF-funded center. This project focuses on identifying examples of entrepreneurship in NSF-funded science and engineering research, which will help better document the economic impact of NSF-funded research (e.g., new companies started, technology licensed) as well as better understand the conditions under which scientific discovery results in entrepreneurship. This project will survey the landscape of entrepreneurial activities engaged in by NSF-funded research projects (year 1) and conduct qualitative interviews with a representative sample of these projects (year 2). The research aims to broaden, beyond patents, the ways in which the economic impact of NSF-funded research is measured. These measures include new companies that are started based on the research, hardware and software developed during the research that are incorporated into commercial products, and technology originating from the research that is licensed to a company. In addition to furthering the scientific understanding of entrepreneurship, a potentially transformative outcome of this research is discovering ways that NSF could better support entrepreneurship, thus increasing the potential for economic impact from science and engineering research. Furthermore, identifying practices that successful investigators use could boost entrepreneurship among researchers in an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy, as the US looks for new ways to foster start-up companies and create jobs.

从广义上讲，创业是发现、评估和利用有利可图的机会。在NSF资助的科学和工程研究的背景下，创业的范围可以从一个研究生开始一个新的公司的基础上获得的知识通过NSF资助的研究生研究奖学金计划的研究人员许可通过NSF资助的中心开发的新技术。该项目的重点是确定NSF资助的科学和工程研究中的创业案例，这将有助于更好地记录NSF资助的研究的经济影响（例如，新公司的创办、技术的许可证发放）以及更好地了解科学发现导致创业的条件。该项目将调查NSF资助的研究项目（第一年）所从事的创业活动的景观，并对这些项目（第二年）的代表性样本进行定性访谈。该研究旨在扩大专利之外的衡量NSF资助研究的经济影响的方式。这些措施包括在研究基础上成立的新公司，在研究期间开发的硬件和软件被纳入商业产品，以及来自研究的技术被许可给公司。除了促进对创业的科学理解外，这项研究的一个潜在变革性成果是发现NSF可以更好地支持创业的方法，从而增加科学和工程研究对经济影响的潜力。此外，随着美国寻找新的方法来培育初创公司和创造就业机会，确定成功的研究人员使用的实践可以在日益增长的知识密集型经济中促进研究人员的创业精神。