Assessing the Value of Research in Advancing National Goals

应《美国竞争法》国会的要求，美国国家科学院国家研究委员会(NRC)正在调查研究为我们的经济和福祉做出贡献并为其他国家目标服务的众多途径中的一部分。任命了一个不同的专家委员会，以探索衡量研究质量、生产率和影响的各种方法；检查各种研究对社会的潜在影响的衡量标准的解释性、预测能力和激励效果；并确定制定评估研究影响的措施或其他手段所需的研究和数据。该委员会的工作包括审查以前的努力，以评估研究产出和在工业和政府中的影响，以及其他国家的相关经验。这项研究的范围是所有联邦支持的研究，并涵盖有助于基础理解的基础研究，以启发使用的基础研究。因此，该委员会在确定一些深入调查的研究领域时必须有选择性。该委员会的职责包括建议如何更好地组织和支持研究，以进一步促进国家目标的实现。特别是，委员会被要求解决这家美国研究企业如何进一步适应竞争激烈、高度联系的世界和全球化经济的问题。更广泛的影响。由此产生的研究评估对那些决定研究资金分配的人来说是至关重要的。这项研究预计将影响许多机构对科学研究的追求，并得到许多政府机构和其他组织的资助。

In response to the request by the Congress in the America COMPETES Act, the National Academies' National Research Council (NRC) is investigating some of the many pathways through which research contributes to our economy and well-being and serves other national goals. A diverse committee of experts is appointed to explore various methodological approaches to measurement of research quality, productivity, and impact; examine the explanatory power, predictive ability, and incentive effects of various measures of the potential impact of research on society; and identify the research and data needed to develop measures or other means to assess the impact of research. The committee's work includes examining prior efforts to assess research output and impact in industry, as well as in government, and relevant experiences of other countries.The purview of the study is all federally supported research and spans basic research that contributes to fundamental understanding to use-inspired basic research. The committee, therefore, must be selective in identifying research areas for some in-depth investigations.The committee's charge includes recommending how research could be better organized and supported to further contribute to advancing national goals. In particular, the committee is asked to address how the U.S. research enterprise can further adapt to a competitive and highly linked world with a globalized economy. Broader impacts. The resulting assessments of research are critical to those who make decisions on the allocation of research funds. The study is expected to influence the pursuit of scientific research by many institutions and funded by many government agencies and other organizations.