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Standard Grant: Investigating the "Grand Challenge" Solutions of Agro-Food Technology

标准资助：研究农产品技术的“大挑战”解决方案

基本信息

批准号：
1749184
负责人：
Julie Guthman
金额：
$ 49.24万
依托单位：
University of California-Santa Cruz
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1749184&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Standard Grant Investigating Grand Challenge

项目摘要

The proposed research project focuses on the food-technology sector in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will examine the interests, principles, social relationships, and institutional forces that are guiding the sector as a whole within the region. The project will use multiple methods including database construction, network analysis, surveys of patents, observations of trade meetings, and interviews to shed light on how entrepreneurs are anticipating public resistance or support in the design and marketing of their products. The results of this project will have the potential to lead to reconsiderations of problem framing, product design and marketing. It may serve to encourage philanthropists and public institutions to invest in solutions most likely to be efficacious, equitable, and widely embraced. It may also serve to generate a more nuanced public engagement with these technologies that steer clear of the extremes of knee jerk rejection and uncritical celebration. This project will investigate a broad array of novel food, supply chain, and agricultural technologies. The aim of the project is to produce understanding of the challenges facing the agro-food system. It will examine the discursive frames and enabling assumptions that underpin technology deployment, and it will explore how these technologies are being shaped by institutional collaborations and in response to imagined publics. Specific research activities include constructing a database of existing and pipeline technologies, producing a social network analysis of influences and connections, observing the self-representations of both the sector and individual products at industry trade meetings and other events, and interviewing a broad array of entrepreneurs and collaborating scientists and funders. By subjecting the assumptions and promises of a broad array of novel technologies to robust social analysis and sharing the results with the industry and its champions, this project will help technology entrepreneurs and their collaborators to acquire a better understanding of the nature of their own interventions, how they align with their own stated aims, and the underlying issues that might inform public perception and resistance to the disruptions they propose.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

拟议的研究项目侧重于旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区的食品技术部门。它将审查利益，原则，社会关系和机构力量，指导该地区内的整个部门。该项目将使用多种方法，包括数据库建设、网络分析、专利调查、贸易会议观察和访谈，以了解企业家如何预测公众对其产品设计和营销的抵制或支持。该项目的结果将有可能导致重新考虑问题框架，产品设计和营销。它可以鼓励慈善家和公共机构投资于最有可能有效、公平和广泛接受的解决方案。它也可能有助于产生一个更微妙的公众参与这些技术，避免极端的膝跳反应拒绝和不加批判的庆祝。该项目将研究一系列新的食品，供应链和农业技术。该项目的目的是了解农业粮食系统面临的挑战。它将研究支撑技术部署的话语框架和假设，并将探讨这些技术如何通过机构合作和对想象中的公众的回应而形成。具体的研究活动包括建立一个现有技术和管道技术的数据库，对影响和联系进行社会网络分析，观察行业和个别产品在行业贸易会议和其他活动中的自我陈述，并采访广泛的企业家和合作科学家和资助者。通过对各种新技术的假设和承诺进行强有力的社会分析，并与行业及其拥护者分享结果，该项目将帮助技术企业家及其合作者更好地了解他们自己干预的性质，他们如何与自己的既定目标保持一致，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。