Grants for Collaborative Research: Understanding Innovative Science: The Case of the Wisconsin Institues for Discovery

当代科学的独特之处是什么？这个问题在这个项目中是通过研究当代科学的新兴思想和社会安排如何影响一个战略案例中的科学研究的实践和结果来解决的，威斯康星发现研究所。这些研究所是明确寻求打破学科障碍、为公共/私人合作打造新工具、加速变革科学应用的研究组织。该项目将采用多种方法进行分析，包括民族志、口述历史和档案分析，以进行历史和当代的比较。它将探讨威斯康星发现研究所如何体现当代科学的不同之处以及保持不变的地方。三个问题指导研究：1。关于跨学科、跨学科和公共/私人合作等问题的广泛讨论如何塑造新机构的演变？这些想法如何影响科学工作以及与研究所支持者建立关系的公共工作？研究科学的新方法如何（以及为谁）取得成功？他们的成功需要什么样的新指标？潜在的更广泛的影响该项目将支持研究生研究培训和学术出版，扩大一个可公开访问的电子档案，使其他人能够研究威斯康星发现研究所。通过将研究人员、各研究所的利益相关者、科学政策制定者和受邀的学术评论员聚集在一起的闭幕研讨会，将加速研究结果的广泛传播。一份面向政策的白皮书和一本总结专题讨论会成果的书也将有助于扩大项目的总体影响。该项目的成果将有可能指导未来对研究和研究基础设施的投资。它将为正在进行的关于跨学科的价值、公私合作的利弊以及中心和研究所在社区范围内的影响的讨论提供新的证据。

IntroductionWhat is distinctive about contemporary science? This question is addressed in this project by examining how emerging ideas and social arrangements of contemporary science affect the practices and outcomes of scientific research in one strategic case, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. These institutes are research organizations that explicitly seek to break disciplinary barriers, forge new tools for public/private collaboration, and speed the application of transformative science.Intellectual MeritThe project will engage in this analysis by using multiple methods including ethnography, oral history, and archival analysis to engage in historical and contemporary comparisons. It will explore how the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery embody what is different about contemporary science as well as what remains the same. Three questions guide the research:1. How do widely discussed ideas about such issues as interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and public/private collaboration shape the evolution of a new institution?2. How do these ideas affect scientific work as well as the public work of forging relationships with the Institutes' constituencies?3. How (and for whom) do new ways of doing science succeed? What new metrics are needed to capture their success?Potential Broader ImpactsThe project will support graduate research training and scholarly publication, expand a publicly accessible electronic archive, enabling others to study the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery. Broad dissemination of findings will be accelerated through a concluding symposium that brings together the researchers, stakeholders in the Institutes, science policymakers, and invited scholarly commentators. A policy-oriented whitepaper and a book summarizing the results of the symposium will also serve to broaden the projects overall impact. The results of this project will have the potential to guide future investment in research and research infrastructure. It will add new evidence to ongoing discussions about the value of interdisciplinarity, the pros and cons of public/private collaborations, and the community-wide effects of centers and institutes.