Using human resource data to track innovation : summary of a workshop / edited by Stephen A. Merrill and Michael McGeary ; Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merrill, Stephen A.

McGreary, Michael.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy.

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

The compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--United States.

Technological innovations.

United States.

Industrial policy--United States.

Industrial policy.

Research, Industrial--United States.

Research, Industrial.

Technology and state--United States.

Technology and state.

Science and state--United States.

Science and state.

Creativity.

Employee Performance Appraisal.

Technology.

Medical Subjects:

Creativity.

Employee Performance Appraisal.

Technology.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 68 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [2002]

Summary:

"This volume is the summary of a second STEP workshop ... The workshop explored how data on scientists, engineers, and other professionals-data on their training and skills, mobility and career paths, use of time, relationships across institutions and sectors, and productivity-can be used to illuminate aspects of innovation that current R&D, patent and other data, by themselves, do not fully capture"--P. viii.

Contents:

I. What role for human resource data in tracking innovation?

II. Principal sources of human resource data

III. Research applications of human resource data

IV. Enhancing the utility of human resource data.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0309084245

OCLC:

50774789