2.1: Contracts and Interagency Agreements

Fund new and expanded data-collection activities including expanded interactions with data users and respondents, enhancing the usefulness of the data to the development of the science of science and innovation policy.

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Cyber-facilitated data extraction mechanisms will be employed to expand and develop new data sets; cyber-linked metrics and methods for evaluating inputs, outputs and outcomes of scientific development will greatly improve the utility of data collections. New surveys and indicators of R&D, innovation and the science and engineering (S&E) workforce will be developed. For example, SRS will develop new indicators that reflect more accurately the way in which R&D is currently being conducted. There are also plans for gathering information about innovative activities that occur at a later stage of product development than is typically captured by existing R&D indicators. SRS is also planning to deepen their database on the S&E workforce, focusing particularly on post-doctorates. The new surveys will be developed based on the expertise and experience of social psychologists, sociologists, economists, and other social scientists as well as researchers across the full spectrum of science and engineering.

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