Using human resource data to track innovation summary of a workshop /

"This volume is the summary of a second STEP workshop, chaired by board memder Mark Myers, formerly chief technical officer of Xerox Corporation. The workshop explored how data on scientists, engineers, and other professionals-data on their training and skills, mobility and career paths, use of...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Merrill, Stephen A., McGreary, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002.
Series:Compass series (Washington, D.C.)
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Summary:"This volume is the summary of a second STEP workshop, chaired by board memder Mark Myers, formerly chief technical officer of Xerox Corporation. The workshop explored how data on scientists, engineers, and other professionals-data on their training and skills, mobility and career paths, use of time, relationships across institutions and sectors, and productivity-can be used to illuminate aspects of innovation that current R&D, patent and other data, by themselves, do not fully capture." -- p. viii, Preface.
Physical Description:xii, 68 p.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.