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威斯康星大学提议建立一个在线、开放的众包创新平台的原型，通过阐明长期目标和萌发变革性的研究思想和问题，为解决紧迫的社会问题制定路线图。一群不同的博士生和博士后将参加为期一年的研讨会课程，进一步发展他们在暑期研究所获得的技能，了解美国如何设定研究重点，并开发创新环境。在这种环境中，问题定义和快速原型设计交替进行，研究人员和涉众小组建设性地批评各种方法。平台将是一个？生活网络?它以一种动态的方式将思想和人联系起来，以保持人们在智力和社会上的参与。在这个过程中，一个复杂的问题将继续被分解成更小的子问题，直到它们可以被解决。下一代（“千禧一代”）已经接受了科学研究的未来将需要更加开放，可访问和民主，解决紧迫的社会问题将来自于对大项目的合作做出许多小贡献。这个试点项目测试了一个假设，即将紧迫的社会问题众包给全球研究界和利益相关者：(1)与下一代研究人员的价值体系很好地吻合；（ii）让我们从不同的角度同时看待问题，因此，从本质上讲，增加了解决问题的潜在途径的数量；（iii）增加了冒险和追求新颖研究路径的意愿，因为大而复杂的问题被社会网络内连接的群体细分为更小、更易于管理的问题。如果成功，它将为解决当今社会紧迫的社会问题提供一种新颖的方法。此外，通过共同探索问题提出，团队将获得解决复杂问题的信心和技能，并发现在具有国家和国际重要性的复杂跨学科问题上合作的障碍。这种方法的可扩展性和可转移性的潜力，可能有助于长期改变研究界如何与自身和利益相关者互动，从而建立尊重社会和行为约束的解决方案。

The University of Wisconsin proposes to build a prototype for an online, open Crowdsourcing Innovation Platform to develop roadmaps for the solution of pressing societal issues through articulation of long-term goals and germination of transformative research ideas and questions. A diverse group of doctoral students and postdocs will participate in a year-long workshop course, further developing their skills gained in a Summer Institute, learning about how the U.S. sets research priorities, and developing an innovative environment. In this environment, problem definition and rapid prototyping alternate, and groups of researchers and stakeholders constructively critique approaches. The platform will be a ?living network? that links ideas and people in a dynamic way to keep people intellectually and socially engaged. Through the process, a complex problem will continue to be divided into smaller sub-problems until they are amenable to solutions.The next generation (the 'millennials') has already embraced that the future of scientific research will need to be more open, accessible, and democratic and that solutions to the pressing societal issues will come from making many small contributions to big projects collaboratively. This pilot project tests the hypothesis that crowdsourcing pressing societal problems to the global research community and stakeholders (i) meshes well with the value system of the next generation of researchers; (ii) lets us look at the problems simultaneously from different angles, and thus, in essence, increases the number of potential pathways to solutions, and (iii) increases the willingness to take risks and pursue novel research paths as large, complex problems are subdivided into smaller, more manageable problems by a group connected within a social network. If successful, it will provide a novel way to find solutions to the pressing societal problems of today's society. Additionally, through jointly exploring problem posing, the teams will gain confidence and the skills to tackle complex problems and uncover barriers to collaborating on complex, interdisciplinary problems that are of national and international importance. The potential for scalability and the transferability of this approach into other domains could contribute to a long-term change in how the research community interacts with itself and stakeholders to build pathways to solutions that respect social and behavioral constraints.