Industries of Ideas Project Reaches New Milestone

Nov 26, 2024 | News

This month, IRIS premiered the Beta version of the Industries of Ideas dashboard to our advisory board members. The Industries of Ideas project seeks to address the need for new, data-driven ways to demonstrate the value of national investments in knowledge-driven...

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Industries of Ideas project featured on World Economic Forum podcast

Nov 25, 2024 | News

IRIS cofounder and New York University Professor Julia Lane was recently interviewed on Trustworthy Tech Dialogues, a podcast by the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Trustworthy Technology. Dr. Lane discussed ongoing work on the “Industries of Ideas” project and how...

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Webinar! Innovations for the Public Good: A Talk with Dr. Jason Owen-Smith

Sep 20, 2024 | Events, News

Wednesday, October 2nd, 1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m. EDT Join IRIS Executive Director, Jason Owen-Smith, and Research!America for a presentation on IRIS’s efforts to capture, communicate, and enhance the public value of academic research and higher education. The webinar is...

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Michael Zwick of Rutgers University elected to IRIS board; Bethan Cantwell of Michigan State University re-elected

Aug 14, 2024 | News

IRIS welcomes new and returning members to our Board of Directors. Dr. Michael Zwick, the Senior Vice President for Research at Rutgers University, was elected for a three-year term; and incumbent board member Bethan Cantwell, the Assistant Provost for Institutional...

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MIT Press Reader Commentary highlights IRIS’ prototype for measuring federal research impact

Aug 9, 2024 | News

In a new MIT Press Reader commentary, Julia Lane advocates for a new approach to generating public data to better understand AI’s effect on jobs. As she contends, the groundwork for this framework already exists at institutions like IRIS, where a prototype...

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Sixth IRIS-UMETRICS data release now available

Jun 21, 2024 | News

IRIS is pleased to announce that our sixth data release is now available on the virtual data enclave. The 2024 dataset includes information on research spending, vendor contracts and employees from more than 100 campuses across the country. It contains data on more...

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