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5 Assessing Impact
5 Assessing Impact
Pages 38-41
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For basic research, the claim is often made that the distance between the research and the end-item product is so great that one should judge the research as an entity on its own. To 1 National Research Council, 2012.
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Within an R&D organization additional indicators for examining transitions from basic research are available, but they are less frequently tracked than the obvious outputs in papers and technical talks. Some related questions are the following: Has the technical advance in a particular project opened the door for more applied work?
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National Defense University, Washington, D.C. 5 Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2002.
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The report summarizing the findings of the assessment makes the case in economic terms for a return on investment that by itself could justify funding the research, while recognizing that societal impacts are far more difficult to measure and are not readily quantifiable.8 An exemplary example of after-the-fact analysis of impact is the economic impact analyses performed by NIST. Stimulated in part by the concerns of many in Congress that a program such as the NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP)
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