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Using human resource data to track innovation [electronic resource] : 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.

Contributor(s): Merrill, Stephen A | McGreary, Michael | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Compass series (Washington, D.C.): Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002Description: xii, 68 p.Subject(s): Technological innovations -- United States -- Congresses | Industrial policy -- United States -- Congresses | Research, Industrial -- United States -- Congresses | Technology and state -- United States -- Congresses | Science and state -- United States -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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.
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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.

"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.

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