Greetings from D.C. A new initiative to measure the impact of federally funded research on employment, knowledge creation and health outcomes was launched in June. The initiative—entitled Science and Technology for America's Reinvestment: Measuring the Effect of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science, or STAR METRICS—is an extension of a recently completed pilot program conducted under the auspices of the Federal Demonstration Partnership within the National Academies.
The program will be led jointly by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, and is billed as a collaborative effort among federal agencies funding science research and universities and other institutions conducting such federally funded research. It is intended as a "multi-phase project that will evolve with time in response to the demands of stakeholders."
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Author: Gary Jones
