1.1: Grants
Build a rigorous and comprehensive science of science and innovation policy research portfolio through NSF’s usual merit-review
process.
Other Information:
In the spring of 2007 SBE intends to issue its first solicitation for proposals comprising disciplinary and interdisciplinary
research on knowledge generation and innovation. The emphasis areas will be data, models and tools. The solicitation will
invite research that is conducted in the broad spectrum of social, behavioral, cognitive, and economic sciences. Research
will include psychological and organizational studies of innovation, as well as the development of agent-based models and
network analyses. For example, scientists in the natural and social sciences could collaborate on projects about cognitive
pathways and interaction strategies that lead to new discoveries, optimizing team strategies in the innovative process, as
well as study the relationships between ethics, values and public policies. The research objectives will go beyond the traditional
input-output linkages, to broader outcomes, such as implications for national health, security, education, and well-being.
New statistical and econometric tools for estimating social and economic returns to science and engineering investments will
be encouraged, including domain-specific comparisons of public and private R&D expenditures and returns. The research will
not be limited to quantitative assessments. Qualitative tools, such as case studies, ethnographic studies, historical analyses
and cross-national comparisons will also be welcomed and interdisciplinary collaborations will be encouraged. International
collaboration among scholars will also be encouraged, since much can be learned about country-based methods of scientific
exploration and science policies, particularly as the scientific community globalizes. SBE will partner with funding agencies
primarily in Europe and Asia to facilitate these international collaborations. Collaborative research projects between U.S.
investigators and researchers in developing countries and emerging economies are anticipated.
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