Collaborative Research: Technology, Collaboration, and Learning: Modeling Complex International Innovation Partnerships

本项目研究复杂的国际创新伙伴关系（CIIPs）作为通过跨境学习促进国家技术发展的工具。CIIP是一种方法，各国通过与全球专家合作，寻求提高其在特定部门的技术和创新能力。投资促进项目通常由正在建设特定科学、技术或创新领域能力的学习型国家发起。当学习国确定本国不具备所需的专门知识时，它们会寻找外国专家伙伴。这两个合作伙伴参与了长期的合作关系，在此期间，来自双方合作伙伴的个人花费大量的时间在一起，在合作研究，工程或教育活动中共同工作。通常，专家合作伙伴向学习合作伙伴的代表提供教育、指导或培训服务。通过这种持续的互动，每一个伙伴都受到另一个伙伴的社会和文化背景的影响。许多CIIP发生在公共服务部门，由政府组织领导。项目团队通过国际实地工作制作两组案例研究来调查CIIPS。这些案例研究考察了作为发展空间卫星能力和国际大学合作伙伴关系计划的一部分执行的CIIP，这些计划旨在加强创新生态系统。该项目利用一个系统结构框架，分析这些伙伴关系的技术、社会、组织和政策方面。系统架构的方法综合的结果，建立在四个机构的文献：创新政策，技术转让，技术学习，科学和技术研究。该研究开发了一个多阶段分析模型，描述了CIIP的演变和动态;解释了CIIP实施的差异;确定了CIIP之间有见地的模式;并提供了初步工具来评估CIIP满足利益相关者目标的程度。这项研究的结果将促进对科学、技术和创新如何在全球化和需要不断学习的条件下促进经济增长和社会进步的科学理解。该项目是制定CIIP理论的第一步，该理论将其国际性和系统性结合起来。更广泛的影响国际创新合作伙伴关系（CIIP）的概念描述了世界各地发生的一系列不同的科学，技术和创新政策举措。CIIP在很大程度上由公共部门驱动，通常涉及教育、环境管理、基础研究和创新溢出等公共产品。然而，CIIP目前是由制造商驱动的，理论化不足。政策制定者、项目经理和行业合作伙伴可以立即受益于良好的理论基础和分析框架，为当前CIIP的设计和评估提供信息。研究结果还将为如何战略性地部署社区投资伙伴关系以解决国家优先事项提供信息。该项目将通过阐明来自不同文化的合作伙伴走到一起执行复杂的社会技术奋进时发生的动态来促进跨文化和跨部门的理解。该项目汇集了两个独立的研究流？关于新兴卫星项目和国际大学合作伙伴关系。这一共同努力将为了解各部门的共同点提供宝贵的见解。从长远来看，研究人员寻求将这里开发的模型和评估工具扩展到广泛的国家和技术部门。该项目为在不同背景下研究CIIP的研究人员网络奠定了基础。

This project studies Complex International Innovation Partnerships (CIIPs) as an instrument for national technological development through cross-border learning. CIIPs are one approach through which countries seek to improve their technological and innovation capability in specific sectors by partnering with global experts. CIIPs are typically initiated by a learning country that is building capacity in a particular area of science, technology or innovation. When the learning country determines that the requisite expertise is not available in their country, they seek out a foreign expert partner. The two partners engage in a long term relationship during which individuals from both partners spend significant time together, working jointly in collaborative research, engineering or education activities. Typically, the expert partner provides education, mentoring or training services to representatives of the learning partner. Through this sustained interaction, each partner is impacted by the social and cultural context of the other. Many CIIPs occur in public service sectors and are led by government organizations. The project team investigates CIIPS by producing two sets of case studies via international field work. The case studies examine CIIPs that are executed as part of programs to develop space satellite capabilities and international university partnerships that seek to enhance an innovation ecosystem. Using a systems architecture framework, the project analyzes the technological, social, organizational and policy dimensions of these partnerships. The systems architecture approach synthesizes findings that build on four bodies of literature: Innovation Policy, Technology Transfer, Technological Learning, and Science and Technology Studies. The research develops a multi-stage analytic model that describes the evolution and dynamics of CIIPs; explains differences in the implementation of CIIPs; identifies insightful patterns across CIIPs; and provides initial tools to assess the extent to which CIIPs meet stakeholder objectives. The results of the study will advance scientific understanding of how science, technology and innovation can contribute to economic growth and societal progress under conditions that are globalized and necessitate continuous learning. The project is a first step in formulating a theory of CIIPs that combines their international and systemic nature. Broader ImpactsThe concept of Collaborative International Innovation Partnerships (CIIPs) describes a diverse set of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy initiatives occurring around the world. CIIPs are largely driven by the public sector and frequently relate to public goods such as education, environmental management, basic research and innovation spillovers. However, CIIPs are currently practitioner-driven and under-theorized. Policy-makers, program managers and industrial partners can benefit immediately from a sound theoretical grounding and analytic framework to inform the design and evaluation of current CIIPs. The results will also inform how CIIPs may be strategically deployed to address national priorities. The project will promote understanding across cultures and sectors by elucidating the dynamics that occur when partners from distinct cultures come together to execute a complex, sociotechnical endeavor. The project brings together two independent streams of research ? on emerging satellite programs and on international university partnerships. The combined effort will provide valuable insights into commonalities across sectors. In the long term, the investigators seek to extend the models and assessment tools developed here to a broad range of countries and technology sectors. This project lays a foundation for a network of researchers studying CIIPs in different contexts.