Workshop: Exploring the Complexity of the Contributions of Research Universities to Society

本次研讨会将汇集来自各个学科的学者，探讨制定更全面的措施，以更好地评估美国研究型大学为社会提供的好处。 研讨会将提出新的见解，探讨如何衡量和评估研究、教育、培训和知识传播的公益物和经济效益。 研讨会讨论和后续出版物将考虑美国研究型大学的全面运作多样性。 新的见解将导致有关的方式，通过这种方式，主要是地方对大学的投资变得明显在区域，国家和全球范围内。 此外，还将提供有关政策、投资战略等方面的有价值的信息和观点，以进一步提高大学活动的短期和长期效益。过去的研究大多集中在专利和获得大学许可的初创企业方面，因此，在评估研究投资的贡献方面存在局限性。 虽然这些都是重要的指标，但访谈和历史研究表明，这些指标未能解决大学参与社会的许多最重要的经济和社会贡献。 参加这次研讨会的学者将探讨衡量公共资助研究在商业化方面的回报以及通过对公共利益的更广泛贡献的其他方法。 与会者还将评估增加这些捐款的倡议战略。 研讨会的参与者将包括来自一系列领域的研究人员，包括大学技术商业化;高等教育经济学;科学，技术和创新研究以及高级大学管理人员和政策制定者。 该研讨会将于2016年夏季在加州大学戴维斯分校举行。 本次研讨会回应了由NSF科学与创新政策科学（SciSIP）计划发布的亲爱的大学信，旨在促进星星METRICS，NCSES和其他数据库的使用，以评估科学资助，就业和成果指标之间的关系。

This workshop will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the development of more comprehensive set of measures to better assess the benefits provided by U.S. research universities to society. The workshop will yield new insights regarding ways through which the public goods and economic benefits of research, education, training, and knowledge diffusion can be measured and assessed. Workshop discussions and a follow-up publication will consider the full operational diversity of U.S. research universities. New insights will result regarding the ways through which largely local investments in universities become manifest in regional, national, and global contexts. The workshop also will provide valuable information and perspectives regarding policies, investment strategies, and other approaches that can further enhance the short- and longer-term benefits associated with university activity.The workshop will address limitations in past research attempting to evaluate the contributions of research investments because most of those studies focused on patents and university-licensed startups. Although these are important indicators, interviews and historical studies indicate that these metric fail to address many of the most important economic and social contributions of university engagement with society. The scholars involved in this workshop will explore alternate ways to measure the returns of publicly funded research in terms of commercialization and through a wider range of contributions to the public good. Participants also will evaluate strategies for initiatives to increase these contributions. Workshop participants will include researchers from a range of fields, including university-technology commercialization; the economics of higher education; and science, technology, and innovation studies as well as high-level university administrators and policy makers. The workshop will be conducted at the University of California-Davis during the Summer of 2016. This workshop responds to a Dear College Letter issued by the NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Program designed to facilitate the use of STAR METRICS, NCSES, and other databases in order to evaluate relationships among science funding, employment, and outcome metrics.