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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Program." National Research Council. 1997. Industrial Research and Innovation Indicators: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5976.
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Appendix A Workshop Program

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION INDICATORS FOR PUBLIC POLICY

A Workshop Sponsored by the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy

Friday, February 28, 1997

Lecture Room, National Academy of Sciences

Washington, D.C.

8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

 

Mark B. Myers, Senior Vice President, Corporate Research and Technology, Xerox Corporation and STEP Board

 

Jeanne E. Griffith, Director, Science Resources Studies, National Science Foundation

 

Alan Ladwig, Associate Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

9:00–9:45 a.m.

SESSION I. Information Needs for Policy

 

Chair: R. Thomas Weimer, House Science Committee Speakers:

 

James M. Murphy, Jr., Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

 

Timothy Brennan, Council of Economic Advisers

 

Timothy Daniel, Federal Trade Commission

 

Kevin Teichman, Environmental Protection Agency

9:45–10:15 a.m.

SESSION II. Overview of Innovation Information

 

Speaker: David C. Mowery, University of California at Berkeley

 

Discussant: Fred D. Gault, Statistics Canada

10:15–10:30 a.m.

Break

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Program." National Research Council. 1997. Industrial Research and Innovation Indicators: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5976.
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10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

SESSION III. Accounting for Innovation Inputs and Outputs

 

Issues: Strengths and weaknesses of R&D and patent data, integrating firm R&D into industry- and national-level accounts, intellectual capital valuation, S&E personnel, technology adoption and diffusion.

 

Examples of information sources: NSF R&D survey, BEA's R&D satellite account, patent data, innovation surveys, SEC filings, doctoral surveys, Census Surveys of Manufacturing Technology

 

Chair: Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University and STEP Board

 

Speakers:

 

William F. Long, Business Performance Research Associates

 

Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University

 

Baruch Lev, New York University

 

J. Steven Landefeld, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce

 

Discussants:

 

Robert H. McGuckin, III, The Conference Board

 

Dominique Guellec, OECD

 

Francis Narin, CHI Research

 

Charlotte V. Kuh, National Research Council

12:30–1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15–2:45 p.m.

SESSION IV. The Process and Performance of Industrial Innovation

 

Issues: Increased external sourcing and collaboration, restructuring of in-house corporate R&D, internationalization of research and innovation

 

Examples of information sources: NSF pilot innovation survey, Yale surveys, Canadian and European innovation surveys

 

Chair: Mark B. Myers

 

Speakers:

 

Wesley M. Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University

 

John Baldwin, Statistics Canada

 

Discussants:

 

Jules J. Duga, Battelle Memorial Institute

 

Charles F. Larson, Industrial Research Institute

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Program." National Research Council. 1997. Industrial Research and Innovation Indicators: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5976.
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2:45–4:00 p.m.

SESSION V. Discussion Groups on Priority Needs

 

Concurrent working groups to identify and prioritize areas for indicator development, data acquisition, and analysis in light of policy relevance, feasibility, and public- vs. private-sector incentives, resources, and capabilities.

 

• Information technology and the service sector, telecommunications

 

Facilitator: David C. Mowery

 

• Internationalization of R&D and innovation

 

Facilitator: Mary Ellen Mogee, Mogee Research & Analysis Associates

 

• Public-private relationships in data collection and development

 

Facilitator: Robert H. McGuckin, III

4:00–5:00 p.m.

SESSION VI. Plenary Session

 

Reports of working groups and discussion of recommendations

 

Chair: Dale W. Jorgenson

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Program." National Research Council. 1997. Industrial Research and Innovation Indicators: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5976.
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Workshop participants offered a variety of suggestions to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies to improve the usefulness and relevance of data on industrial research and innovation, as well as to increase efficiency in collecting and processing the data. The suggestions dealt with the need to (1) clarify policy information needs; (2) improve the quality, coverage, and collection of existing data items; and (3) identify and collect new types of data.

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