Where Does Innovation Come From?: Project Hindsight, TRACEs, and What Structured Case Studies Can Say About Innovation (September 2019)
Zachary Pirtle (Author)
Jared Moore (Author)
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Volume: 38
Issue: 3
Pages: 56-67
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]
...MoreArticle Jeremy Pitt; Katina Michael; Terri Bookman (September 2019) ISTAS 2018: Technology, Ethics, and Policy [Special Issue Introduction]. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (pp. 21-23).
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