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Enhancing Data Collection for Science and Innovation

This project focuses on redesigning surveys to collect comprehensive data on R&D activities in various sectors. It involves workshops, expert input, field visits, and new data areas such as R&D financial measures and intellectual property. Additionally, support is provided for postdoc data collection and developing innovative data systems.

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Enhancing Data Collection for Science and Innovation

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  1. SRS and SciSIP:Data Related Activities Lynda T. Carlson, Director Division of Science Resources Statistics SBE Advisory Committee November 20, 2008 Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) National Science Foundation www.nsf.gov/statistics National Science Foundation Division of Science Resources Statistics

  2. National Science Foundation SRS and SciSIP Division of Science Resources Statistics • SRS is the federal statistical agency with responsibility for data and analysis on the science and engineering (S&E) enterprise. • SRS conducts 11 ongoing, large scale statistical surveys covering the education of scientists and engineers, the S&E workforce, and research and development and also gathers data on public attitudes toward S&E. • SRS has been a partner in the SciSIP initiative with responsibility for improving several of its benchmark surveys of R&D and the S&E workforce and beginning development of new surveys and databases.

  3. National Science Foundation Survey Redesign Activities Division of Science Resources Statistics • The complete redesign of the Business Research & Development and Innovation Survey • Intensive involvement from users in several workshops • Business expert panel providing advice over the last two years • Over 100 recordkeeping and cognitive visits to industry as part of the survey development • A full scale pilot of 40,000 companies goes into the field in early January • New data areas include: • R&D Financial Measures • R&D Management and Strategy • R&D Funded or Paid for by Others • R&D Human Resources • Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Innovation

  4. National Science Foundation Survey Redesign Activities (cont’d) Division of Science Resources Statistics 2. Redesign of the Academic R&D Expenditures Survey • Data on R&D expenditures will now be collected for all fields, not just S&E fields • Data to be collected on funded R&D for interdisciplinary research • R&D personnel and head counts by faculty/non-faculty • R&D proposal and awards counts • Questions tracking intellectual property and commercialization at universities 3. Support for development of a data collection system on postdocs 4. Support for the development of a field of degree (FOD) question added to the American Community Survey 5. Preliminary review of potential sampling frames and data sources for a possible survey of R&D activities by nonprofit organizations

  5. National Science Foundation Analytical Activities Division of Science Resources Statistics • Development and maintenance of an R&D satellite account to the National Accounts • Exploration of new bibliometrics databases • Support for workshops on innovation data • Providing input to the OECD Innovation Strategy through SRS’s membership on the National Experts in Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI) working group

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