EAGER: Defining and Measuring University Economic Engagement: The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities Innovation and Economic Prosperity (APLU-IEP) Data Platform

自2012年以来，公立和赠地大学协会（APLU）提供了一个自愿计划，以鼓励大学社区参与。为了参加APLU计划，大学进行了一次密集的自学过程，从而获得了以前无法获得的信息。该计划已经积累了包含有关大学经济参与的结构，过程和产出的描述性信息的应用程序。这些申请文件是一个有价值的信息来源，有助于我们更好地了解大学如何与社区合作以促进经济繁荣，如何看待自己在创新生态系统中的作用，以及如何衡量自己在经济参与方面的进展。定义，衡量和推进大学经济参与是一个潜在的变革性研究举措，推动科学和创新政策，将导致广泛的区域和国家社会效益。该项目使研究人员能够随时获得APLU社区参与信息。申请文件的收集将被转换成一个连贯的，结构良好的数据集，易于访问，有利于进一步的定性和定量研究探索。该项目确定了大学用于评估参与度的广泛数据趋势和指标类型。这一努力将利用这些丰富的数据来促进我们的知识和理解，并刺激大学经济参与的潜在变革性研究。

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has offered a voluntary program to encourage university community engagement since 2012. To participate in the APLU program, universities conduct an intensive self-study process that results previously unavailable information. The program has amassed applications containing descriptive information about the structures, processes, and outputs of university economic engagement. These application documents represent a valuable source of information to help us better understand how universities engage with their communities to foster economic prosperity, how they view their role in their innovation ecosystems and how they measure their progress in economic engagement. Defining, measuring and advancing university economic engagement is a potentially transformative research initiative for moving forward science and innovation policy that will result in a wide-range of regional and national societal benefits. This project makes the APLU community engagement information readily accessible to researchers. The collection of application documents will be converted into a coherent, well-structured dataset that is easy to access and conducive to further qualitative and quantitative research explorations. The project identifies broad data trends and types of metrics used by universities to assess engagement. This effort will leverage this rich data to advance our knowledge and understanding, and spur potentially transformative research in university economic engagement.