ExpeditionWorkshop/ThemeOne Understanding Science And Innovation SessionOne 2008 12 17

Collaborative Expedition Workshop #79, The Science of Science Policy    (40WF)

Theme One: Understanding Science and Innovation, Session One, December 17, 2008    (40WG)

• 1. What are the behavioral foundations of innovation?    (40WV)
• 2. What explains technology development, adoption and diffusion?    (40WW)
• 3. How and why do communities of science and innovation form and evolve?    (40WX)

• Tool 1    (40XW)

• this begins the comments    (40YI)

• PeterMeyer    (40YK)

• Shushil Birla Theme 1:    (411T)
• Q1: Importance High.Priority rank 1.    (411U)
  • Comment: Restate Q1 as follows: What is the framework for describing and modeling the (lifecycle) process of creating and deploying knowledge (science & innovation)?    (411V)
    • Comment on Q1 Finding 1: Restate as follows: ... yet to be applied to)..the understanding of innovation (not just within the scientific enterprise). As modified, ranking 1    (411W)
    • Comment on Q1 Finding 2: Replace last sentence with the following: ...developing and utilizing a process of expert elicitation including practitioners. As modified, ranking 2    (411X)
    • Q1 Finding 3: Ranking 3. Comment: Premature, until action is performed on Findings 1 and 2 as modified above.    (411Y)
      • Q1 recommendation 1: No opinion.    (411Z)
      • Q1 recommendation 2: Agree. Ranking 1    (4120)

• Q1 recommendation 3: Agree as modified herein. Ranking 1. Modiy as follows: Exclude "measure" because it is outside the scope of Q1. The framework for description and modeling should be such that it supports appropriate measurements.    (4121)
• Q1 recommendation 4: No opinion. International litt search & dialog should be an integral part (baseline process) of research nowadays (goes without saying).    (4122)

• Q2 recommendation 1: Relevant to my agency: Yes. Contribution: Info sharing.    (4123)
• Q2 recommendation 2: Comment: Modify by removing "investigator-initiated". Relevant: Yes. Contribution: Info sharing.    (4124)
• Q2 recommendations 3: Not necessary in Q2. Contribution: Info sharing.    (4125)

• Q3: For risk modeling, quantitative analysis techniques are not suitable in complex systems with emergent behavior (such as the process of innovation). Low maturity. Low value. In qualitative tools, peer/expert review processes promise high value, but maturity is low. Cost to mature is low also - pursue aggressively. Case studies may be used for confirmaitonal purposes.    (4126)
  • Data collection should be initially seeded with expert elicitation (to reduce the search time for the data acquisition problem.    (4127)

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  • METRICS    (4129)
    • Measuring the following inputs: High value, low cost. Maturity: medium. Inputs to be measured: Competence; effectiveness of organization (could even be self-organizing; state-based, event-riven reconfiguration/reorganization; dynamically reconfiguring).    (412A)

• Question 1: what are the behavioral foundations of innovation?    (4195)
  • Should be “science and innovation” not just innovation    (4196)

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  •    (4198)
    • Finding: Science is a discovery process, bottom up, undirected.    (4199)
    • Innovation is driven by social need, top down.    (419A)
    • These are two dramatically different mindsets loosely coupled.    (419B)