R&D, Innovation and the Competitive Performance of Large U.S. Industrial Firms: Data Base Development and Demonstration

提案编号9321014 Bean 该奖项属于NSF技术创新管理计划，其目的是建立一个工业研发活动数据库，以支持技术创新管理研究。 该数据库将提供给研究人员，他们的研究可以受益于有关组织结构，管理实践，研发资源分配决策和技术密集型公司的业务成果的详细信息，这些公司在对美国经济至关重要的商业部门中运营。 该数据库将提供有关特定行业研发投资水平、创新管理做法和技术创新活动成果的有用背景信息。 这种背景信息可用于描述这些部门的创新管理“规范”，具有内在价值，因为目前在商业部门一级不存在这种数据。 此外，该数据库将有助于解释这些工业部门创新管理实践和经营业绩的研究结果。 该项目由利哈伊大学创新管理研究中心（CIMS）和工业研究所（IRI）联合开展。 该数据库采用的信息提供给CIMS的大型R D执行公司谁是IRI的成员。

Proposal #9321014 Bean This award is in NSF's program on Management of Technological Innovation its purpose is to create a data base on industrial R&D activities that may support research on the management of technological innovation. The data base would be made available to researchers whose studies can benefit detailed information about the organizational structures, management practices, R&D resources allocation decisions and business outcomes of technology intensive firms operating in business sectors that are of substantial importance to the U.S. economy. This data base will provide useful contextual information about R&D investment levels, innovation management practices and outcome of technological innovation activities in specific sectors of industry. This contextual information, which can be used to describe innovation management "norms" for these sectors, is intrinsically valuable, since such data does not presently exist at the business sectors level. Additionally, the data base will be helpful in interpreting the results of research on innovation management practices and business performance in these industrial sectors. This project is carried out jointly by the Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) at Lehigh University and the Industrial Research Institute (IRI). The data base employs information provided to CIMS by large R&D performing firms who are members of the IRI .