Article ID: CBB300088695

Where Does Innovation Come From?: Project Hindsight, TRACEs, and What Structured Case Studies Can Say About Innovation (September 2019)

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Zachary Pirtle (Author)
Jared Moore (Author)


IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Volume: 38
Issue: 3
Pages: 56-67


Publication Date: September 2019
Edition Details: Special issue on ISTAS 2018: Technology, Ethics and Policy
Language: English

Engineers and scientists often seek to use their work to benefit society, but they face difficulty in tracing the benefits of research and development. Assessing the technical and societal outcomes of research and development is an old and continuous challenge . Bozeman and Sarewitz argue that formal economic calculations — like tracking patent and publications counts — cannot fully capture the impact that a technological development brings. Instead, they argue for "public value mapping:" causally "mapping" specific research and development activities to public goods by employing social scientists to conduct historical case studies of those innovation areas. Case studies and qualitative research in general thus present a way to both understand the benefits of past research and find the sources of innovation and the causal links between how research and development connects to public goods. [Peer reviewed]

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Authors & Contributors
Niels Van Dijk
Lupo, Maurizio
Con Diaz, Gerardo
Rommetveit, Kjetil
Jean Gecit
Swinney, Dan
Concepts
Technological innovation
Technology and society
Development of technology; change in technology
Technology and ethics
Research and development (R&D)
Technology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Americas
Italy
Europe
Canada
Korea
Institutions
Philips Electronics
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
General Electric
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Du Pont Company
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