The Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program: Frontier Research

The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program was established at NSF in 2005 in response to a call from Dr. John Marburger  III for a “specialist scholarly community” to study the science of science policy.  The program has three major goals: advancing evidence based science & innovation policy decisionmaking; developing and building a scientific community to study science & innovation policy and developing new and improved datasets.

67 awards have been made in three rounds of funding. The awardees include economists, sociologists, political scientists and psychologists as well as domain scientists.  Some of these awards are already showing results, with papers, presentations, software and data development. In addition, 12 RAPID awards examine how the ARRA investments advance the scientific understanding of the impact of science investments on a variety of economic, scientific and social outcomes.

This presentation summarizes the key findings of the research and identifies new priorities.