From Outputs to Outcomes: A National Workshop to Identify Additional Measures of University Contributions to Regional Economic Growth and Innovation

拟议举办讲习班的目的是推动确定更全面地反映大学对区域创新的贡献的措施，超越传统的经济影响衡量标准。公立和赠与土地大学协会(APLU)将邀请一组替代指标和不同最终用户社区的专家分享和挑战这一领域的当前想法，并就大学对区域经济发展做出贡献的一些潜在新措施达成共识。目标是：1)就大学对创新的贡献的具体额外措施向国家科学基金会(NSF)和其他联邦机构提供建议；2)更好地了解不同指标的适当性和适宜性；3)确定系统地实施一套更具包容性的指标是否可行。讲习班的参加者将包括来自广泛的数据制作者和数据用户群体的代表，包括政府(民选和职业)官员、基金会官员、媒体和工业界代表以及大学人员。讲习班旨在使国家讨论超越传统的、以产出为基础的衡量大学对经济发展的贡献的有效性、准确性和有用性(例如专利、许可证、特许权使用费、初创企业)，并侧重于确定值得在国家一级进一步测试和确认的大学贡献的其他成果衡量的子集。除其他外，这些新指标可包括：1)大学对新企业的创建、可持续性和增长的贡献；2)个人和知识从大学进入经济增长/创新活动的情况；3)与工业界和其他社区实体建立伙伴关系的数量/质量。

The purpose of a proposed workshop is to advance the identification of measures that more completely capture the contributions of universities to regional innovation, beyond traditional economic impact metrics. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) will invite a group of experts in alternate metrics and various end-user communities to share and challenge the current thinking in this area and develop consensus around a select number of potential new measures of university contributions to regional economic development. The goals are: 1) to provide recommendations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies on specific additional measures of university contributions to innovation; 2) to gain a better understanding of the appropriateness and suitability of different metrics; and 3) to determine whether it is feasible to systematically implement a more inclusive set of metrics. Participants in the workshop would include representatives from a wide range of data generator and data user communities, including government (elected and career) officials, foundation officers, representatives from the media and industry, and university personnel. The workshop is designed to move the national discussion beyond the validity, accuracy and usefulness of traditional, output-based measures of university contributions to economic development (e.g., patents, licenses, royalties, start-ups) and focus on identifying a subset of additional, outcomes measures of university contributions that are worthy of further testing and validation at the national level. These new indicators could include, among others, measures of: 1) university contributions in the creation, sustainability and growth of new businesses; 2) the movement of individuals and knowledge from universities into economic growth/innovation activities; and 3) the quantity/quality of partnerships with industry and other community entities.