New Measures of University Contributions to Regional Economies: A Template

公立大学和赠地大学协会将在2011年举办两次研讨会活动，以协助制定一套衡量标准，以更好地衡量公立大学对其常驻经济区域的贡献。讲习班的目的是将APLU成员学术机构的知识人员和选定的其他专家的想法用于确定和完善为此目的的适当衡量标准。根据APLU以前在这一主题上的工作，主要的兴趣将是解决知识资本和人力资本的指标。其中一个研讨会将与2011年6月在俄勒冈州波特兰举行的APLU创新、竞争力和经济繁荣委员会(CICEP)会议(估计有100人参加)相结合。第二个后续讲习班计划于2011年9月或10月在华盛顿特区举行(估计有50人参加)。研讨会进程的总体目标是准备一套明确的衡量标准，涵盖知识和人力资本，供2011年秋季提交给APLU正式成员进行介绍和讨论。该项目的调查结果应与广泛的学术机构相关，而不仅仅是公共机构，在这些机构中，经常出现衡量和管理大学与更大经济的联系的类似问题。研究结果还将引起学者、从业人员、利益攸关方和其他有兴趣更好地衡量和/或管理知识和技能发展对经济的影响的外部社区的兴趣。NSF也将直接受益，因为它寻求扩大和完善其关于美国学术研究系统的资源和成就的年度数据收集。

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) will conduct a pair of workshop activities in 2011 to assist development of a set of metrics to better gauge the contributions of public universities to their resident economic regions. The workshops are intended to bring the thinking of knowledgeable personnel from APLU member academic institutions and of selected other experts to bear in identifying and refining appropriate metrics for this purpose. Based on previous work by APLU on this topic, the chief interest will be in metrics addressing knowledge capital and human capital. One workshop will be conducted in conjunction with the June 2011 meeting of APLU's Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity (CICEP), in Portland, Oregon (estimated 100 participants). The second, follow-on workshop is planned for September or October 2011, in Washington DC (estimated 50 participants). The overall goal of the workshop process is to prepare a well defined set of metrics covering both knowledge and human capital for presentation and discussion to the full APLU membership in late fall 2011.The project's findings should be relevant to wide range of academic institutions, not just public institutions, where similar issues of measuring and managing university links to the larger economy often arise. The findings would also be of interest to the external community of scholars, practitioners, stakeholders, and others with interest in better measuring and/or managing the impacts of knowledge and skills development on the economy. NSF would also directly benefit, as it seeks to enlarge and refine its annual collection of data about the resources and achievements of the U.S. academic research system.