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APPENDIX A
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research
April 18-19, 2011
20 F Street N.W. Conference Center
Washington, D.C. 20001
APRIL 18, 2011
7: 30 AM Registration
8: 15 AM Introductions, and Workshop Objectives
Neal Lane, Co-Chair; University Professor, Rice University
Bronwyn Hall, Co-Chair; Professor, University of California, Berkeley
and University of Maastricht
8:30 AM Welcome Address: The Honorable Rush Holt (D-NJ), U.S.
House of Representatives
Introduced by: Neal Lane, Co-Chair
8:45 AM Session I: Promise and Limits of Measuring the Impact of
Federally Supported Research
What have we learned from previous efforts to measure the economic
impact of federal research investments? What approaches and metrics are
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more and less promising? What are the noneconomic factors that could
be used as alternative measures of the impact of federal research?1
Moderator: Alfred Spector, Vice-President, Google, Inc.
Commissioned Paper Presentation: Irwin Feller, Professor Emeritus,
Economics, Pennsylvania State University
Commentator: Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society,
Arizona State University
9: 30 AM Discussion
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Session II: Aggregate Impact of Federally-Supported
Research on the U.S. Economy and Quality of Life
What do we know about or how could we determine the contributions of
public research to: GDP and productivity? Wages and employment?
Private sector R and D and innovation? Is there any basis for setting a
target for aggregate research expenditures?
Moderator: Bronwyn Hall, Co-Chair
Panelists:
Carol Corrado, Senior Advisor and Research Director in Economics,
The Conference Board
Bruce Weinberg, Professor of Economics and Public Administration,
Ohio State University
Michael Roach, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship,
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
11:15 AM Discussion
11:45 AM Lunch Break
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The questions listed for each session of the workshop were intended to
stimulate thought and discussion. It was not expected that presenters would
address all of these questions nor that the session as a whole would provide the
answers.
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12:30 PM Session III: Funding and Impact of Biomedical and Health
Research
What are the links between publicly funded research, biomedical
innovation, and health outcomes and costs? Are there metrics that could
help policymakers strengthen those linkages? What have we learned
about the effects of fluctuations in the National Institutes of Health
funding over the past decade and how to manage future funding
changes? How do private firms and philanthropic organizations gauge
the results of their health-related research investments?
Moderator: Neal Lane, Co-Chair
Commissioned Paper Presentation: Bhaven Sampat, Assistant Professor
of Public Health, Columbia University
Panelists:
Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard
University
Paul Citron, Retired Vice-President, Technology Policy and Academic
Relations, Medtronic, Inc
Laura Guay, Vice-President of Research, The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric
AIDS Foundation
2: 00 PM Discussion
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM Session IV: International Perspectives on Assessing
Research Impacts
What progress has been made abroad in tracking and assessing public
research outcomes? What methods and metrics might be applicable in the
United States? What features of national research systems make it easier
or more difficult to transfer methodologies?
Moderated by: Bronwyn Hall, Co-Chair
Panelists:
Ian Viney, Head of Evaluation, Strategy Group, Medical Research
Council, United Kingdom
Brian Sloan, Directorate-General, Research and Innovation, European
Commission
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Marcio de Miranda Santos, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic
Management and Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation,
Brazil
4:00 PM Session V: Assessing Mixed Market and Non-Market
Impacts of Research
Can we measure the less-quantifiable benefits of research such as on
climate change mitigation, food security, environmental protection, and
national security? What are the alternative approaches for better
assessing the non-market impacts of research? How do private firms and
foundations measure the results of their research investments related to
public goods?
Moderator: Catherine Woteki, Under Secretary for Agriculture for
Research, Education and Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Panelists:
Prabhu Pingali, Deputy Director, Agricultural Development, The Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation (by phone)
Richard Broglie, Director of Research Strategy, DuPont Agricultural
Biotechnology
Michael Roberts, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
Richard Van Atta, Senior Research Analyst, Science and Technology
Policy Institute
5:00 PM Discussion
5:30 PM Poster Session
Presented by AAAS FIRE (Federal Innovation, Research, and
Evaluation Affinity Group)
Mary Elizabeth Hughes , Science and Technology Policy Institute,
Understanding High Risk, High-Reward Research Programs
Tiffany Sargent, National Science Foundation, Analytics for Managing
Industrial and Government Portfolio Decisions
Amber Baum, National Science Foundation, The National Science
Foundation’s FY 2011 Performance Plan
Sapun Parekh, National Science Foundation, Flexible Portfolio
Analysis of Fundamental Science and Engineering Research
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Rebecca Rosen, National Institutes of Health, A Tool for Tracing,
Understanding, and Visualizing NIH Contributions to Therapeutics
Development
Kerry Hamilton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Drinking
Water Research Drivers and Future Directions
APRIL 19, 2011
8: 00 AM Registration
8:20 AM Welcome and Summary of First Day
Neal Lane, Co-Chair
Bronwyn Hall, Co-Chair
8: 30 AM Session VI: Impact of Research and Research Funding on
the Labor Market and Career Development of STEM Professionals
How can better data and analysis on federal research spending be used to
help the labor market function more efficiently? Is there a mismatch
between the modes of funding graduate education and early career
training and the labor market for STEM graduates? What kinds of data
do we need to understand career preferences, career options, and career
tracks especially in interdisciplinary fields?
Moderator: Paula Stephan, Professor of Economics, Georgia State
University
Panelists:
Anthony Carnevale, Director, Georgetown University Center on
Education and the Workforce
Henry Sauermann, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management,
Georgia Institute of Technology
James Evans, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
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9: 30 AM Discussion
10:00 AM Session VII: Emerging Metrics and Models for Assessing
Research Impacts
What will it take to construct a long-term, comprehensive, disaggregated
data infrastructure? Which challenges need the most attention? How can
new approaches such as the STAR Metrics be improved and broadened
to encompass different research programs, projects, performers, and
funding mechanisms? How can advances in data presentation and
visualization help policymakers better understand and use the analysis?
Moderator: David Goldston, Director of Governmental Affairs, Natural
Resources Defense Council
Panelists:
Julia Lane, Program Director, Science of Science and Innovation
Policy Program, National Science Foundation
Stefano Bertuzzi, Health Science Policy Analyst, Office of the Director,
National Institutes of Health
Ian Foster, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor,
Department of Computer Science, and Chan Soon-Shiong Scholar,
University of Chicago
Lynne Zucker, Professor of Sociology and Policy Studies, University of
California, Los Angeles
Adam Jaffe, Dean of Arts and Sciences and Fred C. Hecht Professor in
Economics, Brandeis University
John Stasko, Professor and Associate Chair, School of Interactive
Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
11: 30 AM Discussion
12:00 PM Keynote Address: Subra Suresh, Director, National
Science Foundation
Introduced by: Michael Turner, Rauner Distinguished Service Professor
and Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of
Chicago
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12:30 PM Lunch Break
1: 00 PM Session VIII: Impacts of Research on Decision-Making and
Public Behavior
What is known about the impact of research on legislative, regulatory,
and judicial decision-making? What do we know about the pathways by
which advances in research eventually come to influence public
behavior? Are there ways to enhance the effectiveness of these linkages?
Moderator: Eric Ward, President, The Two Blades Foundation
Panelists:
Kai Lee, Program Officer, Conservation and Science Program, David
and Lucile Packard Foundation
Will Friedman, President, Public Agenda
Garry Neil, Corporate Vice President, Johnson and Johnson
2:30 PM Discussion
3:00 PM Session IX: Roundup Panel—Pitfalls, Progress, and
Opportunities
Co-Moderators: Neal Lane and Bronwyn Hall, Co-Chairs
Panelists:
Alfred Spector, Vice-President, Google, Inc.
Eric Ward, President, The Two Blades Foundation
Paula Stephan, Professor of Economics, Georgia State University
David Goldston, Director of Governmental Affairs, Natural Resources
Defense Council
Michael Turner, Rauner Distinguished Service Professor and Director,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago
4:00 PM Adjourn
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