Assessing the Value of Research in the Chemical Sciences

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. Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Measuring the Return on Investment in R&D: Voices from thePast, Visions of the Future2 The Sources of Commercial Technological InnovationPanel Discussion: Introductory Session3 Assessing the Value of Research at IBM4 Evaluating Materials Chemistry Research5 The Technology Value PyramidPanel Discussion: Industrial Session6 Patents and Publicly Funded Research7 Research as a Critical Component of the Undergraduate EducationalExperience8 Scholarly Research: Oxymoron, Redundancy, or Necessity?9 Assessing the University-Industrial InteractionsPanel Discussion: Academic Session10 Assessing the Value of Research at the Department of Energy: APerspective from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences11 Assessing the Value of Research at the National ScienceFoundation12 National Institutes of Health Response to the GovernmentPerformance and Results ActPanel Discussion: Government SessionA Workshop ParticipantsB Origin of and Information on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable