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)
- this begins the comments (40YI)
- 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)
- Comment: Restate Q1 as follows: What is the framework for describing and modeling the (lifecycle) process of creating and deploying knowledge (science & innovation)? (411V)
- 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)