Workshop: Exploring the Complexity of the Contributions of Research Universities to Society

本次研讨会将汇集来自各个学科的学者，探讨制定更全面的措施，以更好地评估美国研究型大学为社会提供的效益。 该研讨会将就如何衡量和评估研究、教育、培训和知识传播的公共产品和经济效益提供新的见解。 研讨会讨论和后续出版物将考虑美国研究型大学的全面运营多样性。 关于大学本地投资如何在区域、国家和全球背景下体现的方式，将会产生新的见解。 研讨会还将提供有关政策、投资策略和其他方法的宝贵信息和观点，这些方法可以进一步增强与大学活动相关的短期和长期利益。研讨会将解决过去试图评估研究投资贡献的研究的局限性，因为大多数研究都集中在专利和大学许可的初创企业上。 尽管这些都是重要的指标，但访谈和历史研究表明，这些指标未能解决大学与社会互动的许多最重要的经济和社会贡献。 参与本次研讨会的学者将探索衡量公共资助研究在商业化方面的回报以及通过对公共利益进行更广泛贡献的替代方法。 参与者还将评估增加这些贡献的举措策略。 研讨会参与者将包括来自各个领域的研究人员，包括大学技术商业化；高等教育经济学；科学、技术和创新研究以及高水平大学管理人员和政策制定者。 该研讨会将于 2016 年夏季在加州大学戴维斯分校举行。该研讨会是对 NSF 科学与创新政策 (SciSIP) 计划发布的一封致学院的信的回应，该计划旨在促进 STAR METRICS、NCSES 和其他数据库的使用，以评估科学资助、就业和成果指标之间的关系。

This workshop will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the development of more comprehensive set of measures to better assess the benefits provided by U.S. research universities to society. The workshop will yield new insights regarding ways through which the public goods and economic benefits of research, education, training, and knowledge diffusion can be measured and assessed. Workshop discussions and a follow-up publication will consider the full operational diversity of U.S. research universities. New insights will result regarding the ways through which largely local investments in universities become manifest in regional, national, and global contexts. The workshop also will provide valuable information and perspectives regarding policies, investment strategies, and other approaches that can further enhance the short- and longer-term benefits associated with university activity.The workshop will address limitations in past research attempting to evaluate the contributions of research investments because most of those studies focused on patents and university-licensed startups. Although these are important indicators, interviews and historical studies indicate that these metric fail to address many of the most important economic and social contributions of university engagement with society. The scholars involved in this workshop will explore alternate ways to measure the returns of publicly funded research in terms of commercialization and through a wider range of contributions to the public good. Participants also will evaluate strategies for initiatives to increase these contributions. Workshop participants will include researchers from a range of fields, including university-technology commercialization; the economics of higher education; and science, technology, and innovation studies as well as high-level university administrators and policy makers. The workshop will be conducted at the University of California-Davis during the Summer of 2016. This workshop responds to a Dear College Letter issued by the NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Program designed to facilitate the use of STAR METRICS, NCSES, and other databases in order to evaluate relationships among science funding, employment, and outcome metrics.