This book captures the messages from a workshop that brought together research managers from government, industry, and academia to review and discuss the mechanisms that have been proposed or used to assess the value of chemical research. The workshop focused on the assessment procedures that have been or will be established within the various organizations that carry out or fund research activities, with particular attention to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). The book presents approaches and ideas from leaders in each area that were intended to identify new and useful ways of assessing the value and potential impact of research activities.
Audience Member: Are there differences between big and small companies?
Francis Narin: Yes, but I have not looked in detail at big versus small companies
to see which ones are more science linked, except that in the biotech area the
small ...
Computers and telecommunications have revolutionized the processes of scientific research. How is this information technology being applied and what difficulties do scientists face in using information technology? How can these difficulties be overcome? Information Technology and the Conduct of Research answers these questions and presents a variety of helpful examples. The recommendations address the problems scientists experience in trying to gain the most benefit from information technology in scientific, engineering, and clinical research.
The report is directed to two principal audiences. One audience includes the
policymakers and leaders of those institutions responsible for the support and
management of research. For this audience, the Panel describes issues and ...
This book sets out technological research topics designed to facilitate and expand distributed work--including telecommuting, working while mobile, and working in geographically distributed teams. The book's recommendations for computing and communications infrastructure center on the provision and use of bandwidth--or the speed of communications. Concurrent applications research should be focused on ease of use and interoperability of the multitude of devices and programs that currently are needed to engage in distributed work.
Some possibilities, with widely differing bandwidth requirements, might include
the following: • Dynamically creating a single video data stream with the " audience" incorporated into the image. This would allow, for example, each
participant in ...
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