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Broad Impacts And Narrow Perspectives: Passing The Buck On Science And Social Impacts, Barry Bozeman, Craig Boardman
Broad Impacts And Narrow Perspectives: Passing The Buck On Science And Social Impacts, Barry Bozeman, Craig Boardman
Craig Boardman
We provide a critical assessment of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) “broader impacts criterion” for peer review, which has met with resistance from the scientific community and been characterized as unlikely to have much positive effect due to poor implementation and adherence to the linear model heuristic for innovation. In our view, the weakness of NSF's approach owes less to these issues than to the misguided assumption that the peer review process can be used to leverage more societal value from research. This idea, although undoubtedly well-meaning, is fundamentally flawed. Retooling or refining the Broader Impacts Criterion does not alter …
Toward Understanding Work Motivation: Perceived Public Service Efficacy As A Predictor Of Job Satisfaction, Role Ambiguity And Organizational Commitment In The Public Sector, Craig Boardman, Eric Sundquist
Toward Understanding Work Motivation: Perceived Public Service Efficacy As A Predictor Of Job Satisfaction, Role Ambiguity And Organizational Commitment In The Public Sector, Craig Boardman, Eric Sundquist
Craig Boardman
Government reformers in the United States have recently focused on running public agencies more like private firms by emphasizing economic rewards, such as merit pay. Meanwhile, a body of literature has grown that indicates that public servants respond to factors that financially based reward initiatives tend to ignore. We introduce a new explanatory variable, perceived public service efficacy (PPSE), which quantifies public servants' perception about the benefit their employing agencies provide the public. We present empirical evidence demonstrating that as PPSE rises—that is, as public servants more strongly perceive their agencies to be benefiting the public—reported levels of role ambiguity …
University Researchers Working With Private Companies, Craig Boardman, Branco Ponomariov
University Researchers Working With Private Companies, Craig Boardman, Branco Ponomariov
Craig Boardman
Despite the growing interest in university–industry interactions, there has been little systematic assessment of the university scientists who work with private companies. This study uses a national survey of tenured and tenure-track scientists in the US to identify personal and professional characteristics that affect whether university scientists interact with private companies and, if so, the ways in which they interact. We account for a broad range of professional and personal predictors of scientists’ interactions with the private sector, including funding sources, institutional affiliations, tenure status, support of students, scientific values, and demographic attributes. The motivation for this broad-based analysis is …
Government Centrality To University-Industry Interactions, Craig Boardman
Government Centrality To University-Industry Interactions, Craig Boardman
Craig Boardman
This paper uses data from a national survey of academic researchers in the US to detect how different types of university research centers affect individual-level university–industry interactions. The results suggest that while affiliation with an industry-related center correlates positively with the likelihood of an academic researcher having had any research-related interactions with private companies, affiliation with centers sponsored by government centers programs correlates positively with the level of industry involvement, no matter whether these centers additionally have ties to private companies. The analysis takes the “scientific and technical human capital” approach, which draws from theories of social capital and human …