SciSIP Workshop Agenda with Abstracts

SciSIP Grantee Workshop 2019

Wednesday, October 16

Technology Square Research Building, Room 118

85 5th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308

Noon – 1 pm   Lunch available for workshop registrants

1 – 1:15 pm      Welcome from Cassidy Sugimoto, SciSIP Program Director

1:20 – 3:00      Parallel paper sessions (see listing below with rooms)

3:00 – 3:15      Break

3:15 – 4:00      Summary of SciSIP Accomplishments (rapporteur reports)

Chair: Andi Hess, Arizona State

  •                                 Britt Holbrook, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  •                                 Caroline Wagner, The Ohio State University
  •                                 Julia Melkers, Georgia Tech
  •                                 Nick Vonortas, George Washington University
  •                                 Philip Shapira, Manchester University

4:00 – 4:45      Early Career Panel: The Future of STI Policy Research

  •                                 John Helveston, George Washington University
  •                                 Kavita Surana, University of Maryland
  •                                 Meghna Mukherjee, University of California Berkeley
  •                                 Thomas Woodson, SUNY Stony Brook

4:45 – 5:00      Closing remarks (Susan Cozzens, Cassidy Sugimoto)

 

 Parallel Paper Sessions

Authors Title

 

Workshop Session One

Room 132

 

Chair: David Parkes, AAAS

Ioannis, Pavlidis

(University of Houston)

From Genomics to Brain Science: What Makes Researchers Tick in Transdisciplinary Initiatives
Ring-Ramirez, Misty (Austin Peay State University); Leahey, Erin (Arizona State University); Barringer, Sondra (SMU) Overview of University Commitment to Interdisciplinary Research: Scope, Causes, and Consequences

Mukherjee, Meghna; Posch, Konrad

(University of California Berkeley)

Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Capacity: Observing and Explaining Regulatory Processes in Progress in Rapidly Changing Fields
Whitford, Josh (Columbia University); Schrank, Andrew (Brown University) Do organizations follow their leaders or pursue their goals? Evidence from industrial policymaking in the United States

 

Workshop Session Two

Room 133

 

Chair: Margaret Taylor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kenneth, Evans

(Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy)

The Evolving Role of White House Science Advisors: Lessons learned from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Keller, Ann (UC Berkeley); Scholl, Brian (IZA-Bonn); Taylor, Margaret (Lawrence Berkeley Lab); Taymor, Ken (UC Berkeley) Technological Capacity: Public Sector Organizations & Rapidly Emerging Technologies

Kay, Luciano

(Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research; University of California Santa Barbara)

Science Policy Research Report: The Use of Innovation Prizes in Government

Brunswicker, Sabine

(Research Center for Open Digital Innovation, Purdue University)

Transparency as an innovation nudge: Transparency in open data contests and its innovation effects

 

Workshop Session Three

Room 134

 

Chair: Jeffrey Alexander, RTI International

Vonortas, Nicholas S. (The George Washington University); Ràfols, Ismael (Research Fellow, Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Polècnica de València, Spain)

The Use of Research Portfolios in Science Policy

 

Kwon, Seokbeom (Georgia Institute of Technology); Liu, Xiaoyu (Beijing Institute of Technology); Porter, Alan (Georgia Institute of Technology & Search Technology); Youtie, Jan (Georgia Institute of Technology) Research addressing emerging technological ideas has greater scientific impact
Griffin M. Weber, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School) Using Matched Controls to Measure the Impact of Small Research Pilot Grants