Measuring the Economic Value of Research

Kaye Husbands Fealing is Chair of the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was inaugural Director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science of Science and Innovation Policy program; study director at the National Academy of Sciences; and an Executive Board member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Julia I. Lane is a Professor at the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, at the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress, and a NYU Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics. Julia has published over 70 articles in leading economics journals, and authored or edited ten books. She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. John L. King is an economist and researcher in innovation and science policy. During a fifteen-year career at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service and Office of the Chief Scientist, his research has examined intellectual property, industry structure, and research impacts, both in the food and agriculture sector and more broadly. Stanley R. Johnson is a Distinguished Professor of Economics-Emeritus at Iowa State University and Assistant to the Dean for Special Projects in the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Natural Resources at the University of Nevada, Reno. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Washington, DC.

• Foreword; Preface: 1. Introduction and motivation Kaye Husbands Fealing, Julia Lane, John L. King and Stanley R. Johnson; 2. The current context Kaye Husbands Fealing, Lee-Ann Jaykus, and Laurian Unnevehr; 3. The conceptual and empirical framework Nathan Goldschlag, Julia Lane, Bruce Weinberg and Nikolas Zolas; 4. Identifying food safety related research Evgeny Klochikhin and Julia Lane; 5. The structure of research funding Reza Sattari, Julia Lane and Chia-Hsuan Yang; 6. The food safety research workforce and economic outcomes Matthew Ross, Akina Ikudo and Julia Lane; 7. New insights into food safety research teams Reza Sattari, Julia Lane and Jason Owen Smith; 8. Assessing the effects of food safety research on early career outcomes John L. King, Stanley R. Johnson, and Matthew Ross; 9. Describing patent activity Yeong Jae Kim, Evgeny Klochikhin and Kaye Husbands Fealing; 10. Describing scientific outcomes Evgeny Klochikhin and Kaye Husbands Fealing; 11. Conclusion Kaye Husbands Fealing, Stanley Johnson, John L. King, and Julia Lane; References; Index.

'This book is the first to bring the 'Science of Science Policy' to bear on the important subject of food safety research. The authors develop and describe novel data resources and apply innovative approaches to glean insight into the roles of people in the complex pathways linking bench scientists to food consumers. The book sets the scene and provides a foundation for further work both to apply the same approaches to other contexts and to extend the analysis to quantify further the economic value of food safety research.' Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis and and co-author of Persistence Pays: U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending