Assessing the Value of Research in Advancing National Goals

为响应国会在《美国竞争法》中的要求，美国国家科学院国家研究委员会（NRC）正在调查研究如何通过多种途径促进我们的经济和福祉，并为其他国家目标服务。任命了一个多元化的专家委员会，探讨各种方法方法来衡量研究质量、生产力和影响；检验各种衡量研究对社会潜在影响的指标的解释力、预测能力和激励效应；确定制定评估研究影响的措施或其他手段所需的研究和数据。该委员会的工作包括审查先前评估研究产出和对工业界和政府的影响的努力，以及其他国家的相关经验。这项研究的范围都是联邦政府支持的研究，涵盖了有助于基本理解的基础研究。因此，委员会必须有选择性地确定一些深入调查的研究领域。该委员会的职责包括建议如何更好地组织和支持研究，以进一步促进国家目标的实现。特别是，委员会被要求解决美国研究企业如何进一步适应竞争和高度联系的世界经济全球化。更广泛的影响。研究结果的评估对那些决定分配研究经费的人至关重要。预计这项研究将影响许多机构的科学研究，并受到许多政府机构和其他组织的资助。

In response to the request by the Congress in the America COMPETES Act, the National Academies' National Research Council (NRC) is investigating some of the many pathways through which research contributes to our economy and well-being and serves other national goals. A diverse committee of experts is appointed to explore various methodological approaches to measurement of research quality, productivity, and impact; examine the explanatory power, predictive ability, and incentive effects of various measures of the potential impact of research on society; and identify the research and data needed to develop measures or other means to assess the impact of research. The committee's work includes examining prior efforts to assess research output and impact in industry, as well as in government, and relevant experiences of other countries.The purview of the study is all federally supported research and spans basic research that contributes to fundamental understanding to use-inspired basic research. The committee, therefore, must be selective in identifying research areas for some in-depth investigations.The committee's charge includes recommending how research could be better organized and supported to further contribute to advancing national goals. In particular, the committee is asked to address how the U.S. research enterprise can further adapt to a competitive and highly linked world with a globalized economy. Broader impacts. The resulting assessments of research are critical to those who make decisions on the allocation of research funds. The study is expected to influence the pursuit of scientific research by many institutions and funded by many government agencies and other organizations.