The Public Value of Social Policy Research

这个项目调查了由美国联邦政府的社会政策机构资助的研究的公共价值。“公共价值”不是指研究成果(在论文、报告、专利等方面)，而是指根据各机构的使命并以最广泛的现有社会指标衡量，这些研究影响的社会结果。研究这项研究将扩大公共研发管理的学术范围，使之超越NIH和NSF等传统机构，促进包括功绩审查和技术转让在内的技术比较研究。此外，这项研究可能会阐明从研究中产生公共价值的机制，从而有助于更广泛地理解受赞助研究和社会结果之间的关系。考察社会政策研究的“公共价值”意味着研究研究的社会结果，以及与使命相关的研究项目和这些结果之间假设的因果联系。阐明目标和目的的来源包括授权立法、使命声明和战略计划。社会成果包括可用的、系统的社会指标，以及政策制定者和利益相关者在阐明引发研究计划必要性的社会问题时使用的特别指标。该项目将寻求了解社会政策机构如何在当前项目和投资研究之间设定优先事项，他们如何管理针对社会成果的研究，他们如何将新知识和/或技术从他们赞助的研究转移到他们的使命追求中，他们如何预测他们的研究和社会成果之间的联系，以及这些结果可能是什么。目前的资金用于规划目的，制定必要的许可来收集数据，提出要问的问题，并制定研究设计、分析和解释。

This project investigates the public value of the research funded by social policy agencies of the US federal government. "Public value" refers not the outputs of research (in terms of papers, reports, patents, etc.), but the societal outcomes such research influences, according to the agencies' missions and as measured by the broadest available social indicators. Studying this research will broaden the scholarship of public R&D management beyond such traditional agencies as NIH and NSF, facilitating the comparative study of techniques including merit review and technology transfer. Moreover, the study may illuminate mechanisms for producing public value from research and thus contribute to understanding the relationship between sponsored research and societal outcomes more broadly. Examining the "public value" of social policy research means studying the societal outcomes of the research and the hypothesized causal links between mission-related research programs and these outcomes. Sources for the articulation of goals and objectives include authorizing legislation, mission statements, and strategic plans. Societal outcomes include available, systematic social indicators, as well as ad hoc indicators that policy makers and stakeholders have used in articulating the societal problem triggering the need for the research program. The project will seek to learn how social policy agencies set priorities between current programs and investing in research, how they manage research for societal outcomes, how they transfer new knowledge and/or technologies from their sponsored research into the pursuit of their missions, how they anticipate the linkages between their research and societal outcomes, and what those outcomes may be. The current funding is for planning purposes, to develop the necessary permissions to gather data, develop questions to be asked, and develop the research design, analysis and interpretation.