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The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) collected a unique source of data from highly innovative firms beginning in 1993. These data follow the OECD’s guidelines for collecting innovation data and provide important insights for understanding the innovation process within firms. Although the data are not representative of the population of firms, there is sufficient number of firms in the dataset to test hypotheses and to provide a starting point for calls for innovation metrics. Because of the confidential nature of the data, ATP worked with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to create a Data Enclave so that researchers could remotely access the ATP data in a secure environment. To initiate the use of ATP data in the Data Enclave, the ATP program funded researchers to undertake research projects that use ATP data. Other organizations have joined the Data Enclave, including the Department of Agriculture and the Kauffman Foundation.
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Science of Science & Innovation Policy Newsletter, Volume 1, issue 1, October 2008, http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/scisip/scisipnews1.pdf. Accessed 7 December 2008.
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The United Nations (2007) prepared a publication Managing Statistical Confidentiality & Microdata Access Principles and Guidelines of Good Practice that describes core principles for researcher access to microdata. The publication also presents twenty case studies that demonstrate that there are a variety of ways to do this. Remote access to microdata is described for Australia, Canada, and Denmark.
Data Enclave, go to: http://www.norc.org/DataEnclave/Datasets/NIST-TIP/.
NORC Data Enclave Newsletter, Volume I, issues 3 and 4, July 2008, http://www.norc.org/NR/rdonlyres/81CDE8EB-438E-4689-A2BB-D2D7211C8E49/0/Newsletter34.pdf.
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Campbell, S., Shipp, S., Mulcahy, T. et al. Informing public policy on science and innovation: the Advanced Technology Program’s experience. J Technol Transf 34, 304–319 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-008-9098-7
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