Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation Improving Indicators to Inform Policy (2014) / Chapter Skim
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analytical needs of a diverse user community. It also prepares two congres 4In this report, STEM occupations include engineers, mathematical and sionally mandated biennial reports -- Science and Engineering Indicators computer scientists, life scientists, physical scientists, social scientists, (SEI)
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must operate. Rapid technological change is a healthy feature of modern 6For example, R&D expenditures, patents, and broad measures of human economies, and indeed decades of economic research have capital (such as undergraduate and graduate degrees awarded in science and confirmed that it is the dominant driver of growth in gross technology, as well as on-the-job training)
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, which addresses improvements to surveys of federal funds for R&D and federal science and on a wide variety of topics, in statistics published in the Sci- engineering support for universities, colleges, and nonprofit institutions; entists and Engineers Statistical Data System and National and Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age (National Research Council, 2012) , which highlights data dissemination techniques using Internet-based tools.
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Working Group in June ing business, academic, and nonprofit expenditures on R&D 2012. These discussions collectively yielded a wealth of and government intramural and extramural appropriations information on policy questions and specific measures conor outlays on R&D)
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R02562 Fig 1-1.eps vector Second, recognizing that no one model informs the types gram. Understanding the network of inputs -- including data of indicators NCSES needs to produce, the panel looked to from NCSES surveys, other federal agencies, international policy questions, logic models, systems approaches, and organizations, and the private sector -- that currently and international comparability to refine the suite of indicators should in the future feed into the production of indicators it would recommend as priorities.
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Finally, Chapter 8 through K show statistical measures derived from NCSES's presents the panel's recommendations for processes NCSES Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey could use to make strategic decisions about data acquisition (BRDIS) , which are important for the analysis of innovation for indicators and methods for indicator development, and activities reported by the indicators program.
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