Collaborative Research: Science Policy Research Report: New Directions for Impact

当公共资金被用于资助研究时，联邦科学机构期望在推进科学方面取得卓越成就，同时沿着明确描述伴随而来的社会效益。该项目审查了加强科学研究问责制的趋势，并确定了提高科学对满足社会需求的有用性的新方向。这里提出的研究有可能提高STEM社区的有效性，使其结果与非学术界更相关。这里产生的知识可以帮助资助机构展示科学研究投资的社会价值。本研究报告回顾了围绕更广泛影响的辩论的最新要素：科学自主权与公共责任，社会关注与接受科学成果，同行评审和指标的相对优势，以及鼓励更广泛影响的各种新机制。该报告为有关决策者提供了基于证据的建议，以说明科学研究投资的回报。该报告考虑了媒体的影响，透明度的政治，相对主义文化的发展，并将这些发展与影响议程和开放科学运动等政策创新进行了比较。

When public money is used to fund research, federal science agencies expect excellence in advancing science, along with a clear description of the accompanying societal benefits. This project examines trends for increasing the accountability of scientific research, and identifies new directions for improving the usefulness of science for meeting societal needs. The research presented here has the potential to advance the effectiveness of the STEM community for making its results more relevant to non-academics. The knowledge generated here can help funding agencies demonstrate the societal value of investments in scientific research. This research report reviews the latest elements of the debate surrounding broader impacts in terms of: scientific autonomy versus public accountability, societal concerns versus acceptance of scientific results, the relative advantages of peer review and metrics, and various new mechanisms for encouraging broader impacts. The report offers evidence-based recommendations for policy makers concerned to account for the return on investments in scientific research. The report considers the effects of media, the politics of transparency, the development of a relativistic culture, and compares these developments to policy innovations such as the Impact Agenda and Open Science movement.