EAGER: Management and Organizational Issues in Technology Transfer at Federal Laboratories: Data Collection and Analysis to Advance Commercialization of Federally-funded Research

EAGER：联邦实验室技术转让的管理和组织问题：数据收集和分析以促进联邦资助研究的商业化

• 批准号: 2027440
• 负责人: Donald Siegel
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Management; Organizational; Issues; Technology

It is well known that there is less technology transfer from federal labs to the private sector, as compared to technology transfer from universities. That is unfortunate since federal labs receive more government funding for research than universities (e.g., the R&D expenditures of the federal labs in California consistently exceed those for all 10 University of California campuses). The federal labs also have a technology transfer component, which arguably is not currently being realized to its potential. Accordingly, the overall purpose of this project is to collect data from scientists and managers at federal labs in order to determine how we can advance commercialization of federally-funded research. Our project has important policy and managerial implications for those who govern and manage technology transfer at federal labs. It is also quite timely, given that the technology transfer gap between universities and federal labs has attracted considerable attention. Also, the Department of Energy, which runs 17 major national labs (e.g., Sandia, Livermore, Brookhaven, Berkeley, Los Alamos) is presently reviewing technology transfer policies and procedures at its federal labs.The data we collect will be used to study three potential mechanisms for advancing the commercialization of research at federal labs: (1) assessing the “entrepreneurial orientation” of individual scientists, labs, and organizations; (2) exploring the role of foreign-born status of scientists on entrepreneurial identity, role conflict, and the propensity to engage in technology transfer; and (3) managerial and organizational issues, such as the role of incentives, organizational justice (workplace fairness and equity), championing, leadership, work-life balance, and organizational culture in technology transfer, and strategy formulation. Specifically, the data that we collect on individual scientists and those who manage these scientists, as well as the technology transfer process more generally at the federal labs, will help identify managerial practices that enhance commercialization and the design of more effective entrepreneurial programs and initiatives. Our findings will also improve our understanding of the potential roadblocks that exist for scientists at federal labs who wish to pursue commercialization of their research. The project will be of great interest not only to scholars of science and innovation policy and technology transfer, but also to the broader community of “micro,” or organizational behavior scholars in the fields of management and organizational psychology. Moreover, this research will yield clear policy implications for managers of federal labs, as well as legislators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

众所周知，与大学的技术转移相比，从联邦实验室到私营部门的技术转移较少。这是不幸的，因为联邦实验室获得的研究获得了更多的政府资金，而不是大学（例如，加利福尼亚州联邦实验室的研发支出始终超过加利福尼亚大学全部10个校园）。联邦实验室还拥有技术转移组件，可以说目前尚未实现其潜力。彼此之间，该项目的总体目的是从联邦实验室的科学家和经理那里收集数据，以确定我们如何推进联邦资助的研究的商业化。我们的项目对在联邦实验室管理和管理技术转移的人具有重要的政策和管理意义。鉴于大学和联邦实验室之间的技术转移差距引起了极大的关注，这也是很及时的。此外，运营17个主要国家实验室（例如，桑迪亚，利弗莫尔，布鲁克黑文，伯克利，伯克利，洛斯阿拉莫斯）的能源部目前正在审查其联邦实验室的技术转移政策和程序。我们收集的数据将用于研究三个潜在的机制来推进联邦实验室的研究机制，以评估联邦实验室：组织； （2）探索科学家在企业家身份，角色冲突以及参与技术转移的承诺方面的作用； （3）管理和组织问题，例如激励措施，组织正义（工作场所公平与公平），倡导，领导力，工作与生活平衡以及技术转移中的组织文化以及战略制定的组织文化。具体而言，我们收集的有关个人科学家和管理这些科学家的人以及在联邦实验室中更广泛的技术转移过程的数据将有助于确定可以增强商业化的管理实践，并设计更有效的企业家计划和计划。我们的发现还将提高我们对希望购买研究商业化的联邦实验室中科学家存在的潜在障碍的理解。该项目不仅对科学与创新政策和技术转移学者的兴趣非常重要，而且还将对管理和组织心理学领域的“微观”或组织行为学者的更广泛的社区感兴趣。此外，这项研究将对联邦实验室和立法者的经理产生明确的政策影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。