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:

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

Merrill, Stephen A.

McGreary, Michael.

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

The Compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--United States--Congresses.

Technological innovations.

Industrial policy--United States--Congresses.

Industrial policy.

Research, Industrial--United States--Congresses.

Research, Industrial.

Technology and state--United States--Congresses.

Technology and state.

Science and state--United States--Congresses.

Science and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume is the summary of a second STEP workshop, chaired by board memder Mark Myers, formerly chief technical officer of Xerox Corporation. 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, Preface.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-18292-1

1-280-20950-X

9786610209507

0-309-50194-6

OCLC:

923255081