EAGER Germination: From 0 to 2

威斯康星州的大学建议建立一个原型的在线，开放的众包创新平台，制定路线图，通过阐明长期目标和变革性的研究思路和问题的萌芽迫切的社会问题的解决方案。一组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，了解美国如何设置研究重点，并开发创新环境。在这种环境下，问题定义和快速原型交替，研究人员和利益相关者的团体建设性地批评方法。该平台将是一个？生活网？以一种动态的方式将思想和人联系起来，使人们在智力和社会上保持参与。在这个过程中，一个复杂的问题将继续被分解为更小的子问题，直到它们能够被解决。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，迫切的社会问题的解决方案将来自于为大项目做出许多小贡献的合作。这一试点项目检验的假设是，众包向全球研究界和利益攸关方提出的紧迫社会问题（i）与下一代研究人员的价值体系吻合良好; ㈡让我们从不同的角度同时看待问题，从而实质上增加了解决问题的可能途径，以及（iii）增加承担风险和追求新的研究路径的意愿，因为大型复杂问题被社交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，它将提供一种新的方式来寻找解决当今社会紧迫的社会问题。此外，通过共同探索提出问题，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移植性的潜力可以促进研究界如何与自身和利益相关者互动的长期变化，以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.