Grants for Collaborative Research: Understanding Innovative Science: The Case of the Wisconsin Institues for Discovery

导言当代科学有什么独特之处？这个问题在这个项目中是通过研究当代科学的新兴思想和社会安排如何影响一个战略案例--威斯康星发现研究所的科学研究实践和成果来解决的。这些研究所是明确寻求打破学科障碍的研究组织，为公私合作打造新的工具，并加快变革科学的应用。智力价值该项目将通过使用包括民族志、口述历史和档案分析在内的多种方法进行这种分析，以从事历史和当代的比较。它将探索威斯康星发现研究所如何体现当代科学的不同之处以及保持不变的地方。这项研究有三个指导问题：1.关于跨学科、跨学科和公私合作等问题的广泛讨论如何影响一个新机构的演变？2.这些想法如何影响科学工作以及与研究所支持者建立关系的公共工作？3.新的科学工作方式如何(以及对谁来说)成功？他们的成功需要哪些新的衡量标准？潜在的更广泛的影响该项目将支持研究生研究培训和学术出版，扩大可供公众访问的电子档案，使其他人能够研究威斯康星发现研究所。将通过一次结束性研讨会加速广泛传播研究结果，该研讨会汇集了研究人员、各研究所的利益攸关方、科学政策制定者和特邀的学术评论员。一份以政策为导向的白皮书和一本总结专题讨论会成果的书籍也将有助于扩大项目的整体影响。该项目的成果将有可能指导未来对研究和研究基础设施的投资。它将为正在进行的关于跨学科的价值、公私合作的利弊以及中心和机构的社区影响的讨论提供新的证据。

IntroductionWhat is distinctive about contemporary science? This question is addressed in this project by examining how emerging ideas and social arrangements of contemporary science affect the practices and outcomes of scientific research in one strategic case, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. These institutes are research organizations that explicitly seek to break disciplinary barriers, forge new tools for public/private collaboration, and speed the application of transformative science.Intellectual MeritThe project will engage in this analysis by using multiple methods including ethnography, oral history, and archival analysis to engage in historical and contemporary comparisons. It will explore how the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery embody what is different about contemporary science as well as what remains the same. Three questions guide the research:1. How do widely discussed ideas about such issues as interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and public/private collaboration shape the evolution of a new institution?2. How do these ideas affect scientific work as well as the public work of forging relationships with the Institutes' constituencies?3. How (and for whom) do new ways of doing science succeed? What new metrics are needed to capture their success?Potential Broader ImpactsThe project will support graduate research training and scholarly publication, expand a publicly accessible electronic archive, enabling others to study the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery. Broad dissemination of findings will be accelerated through a concluding symposium that brings together the researchers, stakeholders in the Institutes, science policymakers, and invited scholarly commentators. A policy-oriented whitepaper and a book summarizing the results of the symposium will also serve to broaden the projects overall impact. The results of this project will have the potential to guide future investment in research and research infrastructure. It will add new evidence to ongoing discussions about the value of interdisciplinarity, the pros and cons of public/private collaborations, and the community-wide effects of centers and institutes.