Practice of Innovation: A Value-Creation Workshop to Significantly Improve the Results from NSF's R&D and Commercialization Initiatives

美国国家科学基金会研发和商业化计划的价值创造研讨会从研究中系统地创造高价值的创新是美国实现增长、繁荣、有意义的工作、社会责任、环境可持续性和国家安全的主要途径。今天，大多数衡量基础研究、应用研究和其他创新项目创新成功的指标都相对较差。成功的创新是快速学习和创造的结果；不会像有些人认为的那样迅速失败。它是一门以学习科学基础和经验实践为基础的学科。成功的创新是一门可以教授、应用和改进的学科。这是一个身临其境、亲身实践的研讨会和指导项目。工作坊使用了一个价值创造剧本，它满足了创新成功的基本要求。为了系统地取得成功，专业人士必须理解价值创造的概念和语言；具备收集基本知识的基本思维框架；并且能够通过学习最佳实践快速创造新的价值，例如持续的、无情的基于团队的迭代。最初的研讨会教导专业人士提出正确的问题，并为他们提供改进研发和创新成就的框架。然而，正是这些原则的持续使用才会产生最大的不同。研发成就和创新成功是持续学习过程的结果。不需要持续的价值创造过程的计划是有限的或没有效用的。这些基本原则是工作坊的知识基础。拥有这些创新技能的专业人士和学生必然会成为各自领域中最有成效的研究人员和创新者。运用这些做法有助于促进美国的主要竞争优势，创造大量新的就业机会，并为我们的全球创新经济培养所需的劳动力。

A Value-Creation Workshop for NSF's R&D and Commercialization InitiativesThe systematic creation of high-value innovations from research represents a primary path for America to achieve growth, prosperity, meaningful jobs, social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and national security. Today, most measures of innovative success from basic and applied research and other innovation programs are relatively poor. Successful innovation is the result of learning and creating fast; not failing fast, as some believe. It is a discipline based on both learning-science fundamentals and experiential practice. Successful innovation is a discipline that can be taught, applied, and improved. This initiative is an immersive, hands-on, workshop and coaching program. The workshop uses a value creation playbook, which satisfies the fundamental requirements for innovative success. To be systematically successful, professionals must understand value-creation concepts and language; have fundamental mental frameworks for collecting essential knowledge; and be able to rapidly create new value using learning best practices, such as continuous, unrelenting team-based iteration. The initial workshop teaches professionals the right questions to ask and gives them the framework for improved R&D and innovative achievement. However, it is the continuous use of these principles that makes the biggest difference. R&D achievement and innovative success are the result of a continuous learning process. Programs that do not require a continuous value-creation process are of limited or no utility. These fundamental principles are the intellectual basis of the workshop. Professionals and students with these innovative skills inevitability become some of the most productive researchers and innovators in their fields. The use of these practices can help catalyze a major competitive advantage for the United States, create a large number of new jobs, and educate the workforce required for our global innovation economy.