This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) in the amount of $200,282 provides funding to North Carolina State University to conduct research on understanding and overcoming impediments to high-risk, high-return science. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientists balance competing incentives and constraints when pursuing their research programs, with a focus on...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $134,432 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct collaborative research on understanding the factors that drive or hinder innovation and scientific progress. The research aims to develop empirically informed agent-based simulation models combined with empirical analysis of the scientific record. This mixed-method approach will examine both...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This federal Project Grant award of $265,102 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research aimed at understanding the factors impacting scientific innovation and progress. The research team from Carnegie Mellon University will combine theoretical and empirical studies, including agent-based simulation modeling and analysis of the scientific record, to investigate the internal dynamics of scientific...
This $154,173 National Science Foundation project grant through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund Arizona State University to assess the impact of different biomedical research funder strategies on innovation. Over an 18-month period ending in February 2024, ASU will build an extensive scientist-level database merging individual researcher data with sponsored research proposals, awards, and scientific outcomes including publications and technology transfer...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to understand how socioeconomic heterogeneity within the U.S. scientific workforce impacts scientific discovery and innovation. The project aims to (i) create a unique individual-level dataset linking researcher socioeconomic backgrounds to scholarly topics, (ii) make an anonymized version of this dataset publicly available, (iii)...
This $272,750 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on understanding human decision-making, social interactions, and behavioral patterns. The research explores areas such as the implications of limited memory on economic behavior, the dynamics of sharing information on social media, and the influence of...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was awarded a $249,119 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The 3-year grant, which commenced on September 1, 2023, will support collaborative research on how the increasing "burden of knowledge" required for scientific progress has slowed the pace...
This $348,161 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The award will fund a collaborative research study examining the impact of isolation practices on global scientific cooperation, researcher mobility, and research productivity. The study will employ quasi-experimental methods to analyze how recent geopolitical events have affected international...
This $299,139 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research to evaluate the impact of accelerated government R&D funding on small technology businesses. The research will use data on federal R&D funding, commercialization, finance, and procurement to examine 1) the impacts of gaps in waiting time between government R&D funding tranches, and 2) the impacts on key firms identified as...