Practice of Innovation: A Value-Creation Workshop to Significantly Improve the Results from NSF's R&D and Commercialization Initiatives

NSF研发和商业化计划的价值创造研讨会系统地从研究中创造高价值创新是美国实现增长、繁荣、有意义的就业、社会责任、环境可持续性和国家安全的主要途径。今天，从基础和应用研究以及其他创新项目中衡量创新成功的大多数标准都相对较差。成功的创新是快速学习和创造的结果，而不是像一些人认为的那样快速失败。它是一门既基于学习科学基础又基于经验实践的学科。成功的创新是一门可以教授、应用和改进的学科。该计划是一项身临其境、亲力亲为的研讨会和培训计划。研讨会采用了价值创造策略，满足了创新成功的基本要求。要获得系统的成功，专业人员必须了解价值创造的概念和语言；拥有收集基本知识的基本心理框架；并能够使用学习最佳实践快速创造新的价值，例如持续的、基于团队的持续迭代。最初的研讨会向专业人士传授正确的问题，并为他们提供改进研发和创新成就的框架。然而，正是这些原则的持续使用才是最大的不同之处。研发成就和创新成功是持续学习过程的结果。不需要持续的价值创造过程的程序的效用是有限的或没有的。这些基本原则是研讨会的知识基础。拥有这些创新技能的专业人士和学生不可避免地成为各自领域最具生产力的研究人员和创新者。使用这些实践可以帮助催化美国的重大竞争优势，创造大量新的就业机会，并培养我们的全球创新经济所需的劳动力。

A Value-Creation Workshop for NSF's R&D and Commercialization InitiativesThe systematic creation of high-value innovations from research represents a primary path for America to achieve growth, prosperity, meaningful jobs, social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and national security. Today, most measures of innovative success from basic and applied research and other innovation programs are relatively poor. Successful innovation is the result of learning and creating fast; not failing fast, as some believe. It is a discipline based on both learning-science fundamentals and experiential practice. Successful innovation is a discipline that can be taught, applied, and improved. This initiative is an immersive, hands-on, workshop and coaching program. The workshop uses a value creation playbook, which satisfies the fundamental requirements for innovative success. To be systematically successful, professionals must understand value-creation concepts and language; have fundamental mental frameworks for collecting essential knowledge; and be able to rapidly create new value using learning best practices, such as continuous, unrelenting team-based iteration. The initial workshop teaches professionals the right questions to ask and gives them the framework for improved R&D and innovative achievement. However, it is the continuous use of these principles that makes the biggest difference. R&D achievement and innovative success are the result of a continuous learning process. Programs that do not require a continuous value-creation process are of limited or no utility. These fundamental principles are the intellectual basis of the workshop. Professionals and students with these innovative skills inevitability become some of the most productive researchers and innovators in their fields. The use of these practices can help catalyze a major competitive advantage for the United States, create a large number of new jobs, and educate the workforce required for our global innovation economy.