Workshop on Developing a National Research Infrastructure for the Study of Innovation and Change in Organization, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, July 23, 2008

PI建议组织和主办一次研讨会，以确定建立经验基础设施所需的关键要素，这将推动对科学和创新政策的关键组成部分之一：组织的研究。这将为科学研究影响创新、企业绩效和组织变革的科学和创新政策提供实证基础。研讨会将于2008年7月23日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的NSF会议室举行。2008年7月24日，它将与2008年考夫曼创业与创新数据研讨会的会前会议相连。研讨会将以五个高度结构化的会议的形式组织，为期一天，最多35名参与者，其中约20名参与者以某种方式参与该计划（作为演讲者，小组主持人或讨论主持人）。所有会议都将包括一场现场讨论。这三个组织者将同时担任协调人和报告员。该提案的主要智力价值是，研讨会寻求开发的新数据和工具将为科学政策提供一个基于证据的平台。 它将（1）允许研究人员检查创新过程？成功和失败的？以及（2）在适当的经济实体层面探索业务绩效和业务动态。更广泛的影响就更广泛的影响而言，《美国竞争法》和商务部的《创新评估报告》强调需要更好地衡量创新和企业业绩。通过促进变革性研究，推动对创新及其与政策和商业战略关系的科学理解，新的基础设施将回应这些高层次的关切。

The PI's propose organising and hosting a workshop to identify the key elements necessary to build an empirical infrastructure that will advance research on one of the key building blocks of science and innovation policy: organizations. This will provide an empirical basis for the scientific study of science and innovation policies that affect innovation, business performance, and change in organizations. The workshop will be held in NSF meeting space in Arlington, Virginia, on July 23, 2008. It will be adjoined by a Pre-Conference for the 2008 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data on July 24, 2008The workshop organization will be in the form of five highly structured sessions lasting a total of one day and with a maximum of 35 participants, with about 20 participants involved in the program in some way (as speaker, panel moderator, or discussion facilitator). All sessions will include a floor discussion. The three organizers will act as both facilitators and rapporteursIntellectual meritThe primary intellectual merit of the proposal is that the new data and tools that the workshop seeks to develop would provide an evidence based platform for science policy. It would (1) permit researchers to examine the innovation process ? both successes and failures ? and (2) explore business performance and business dynamics at the level of the appropriate economic entity. Broader ImpactIn terms of broader impacts, the need for better metrics of innovation and business performance was underscored by the America COMPETES Act and the Innovation Metrics report of the Department of Commerce (DOC). By fostering transformative research that would advance the scientific understanding of innovation and its relation to policy and business strategy, the new infrastructure will respond to these high-level concerns.