TY - JOUR T1 - Developing Social Impact Evaluation Methods for Research: viewpoints on commercialization and sustainability JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2021 A1 - Leena Kunttu A1 - Helka Kalliomäki A1 - Sorin Dan A1 - Jari Kuusisto AB - The social contributions of research activities have become more and more important in the rapidly changing innovation environment. Despite the fact that industrial commercialization of research results constitutes one of the most essential drivers for innovation and competitiveness, most generally used social impact evaluation criteria do not include clear metrics involving research commercialization possibilities. In a similar manner, principles regarding sustainable development have been largely omitted from the impact criteria. This paper considers the "broader impacts criteria" (BIC) model developed for social impact evaluation in the National Science Foundation in United States. We propose extensions to the BIC criteria related to commercialization and sustainable development viewpoints on impact evaluation. This paper also considers a newly introduced extension to BIC, called "inclusion-immediacy criteria" (IIC). Based on it, we propose an extended version of the model that aims to additionally evaluate the impact of research from a commercialization point of view. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 11 UR - timreview.ca/article/1441 IS - 5 U1 - University of Vaasa Dr. Leena Kunttu works currently as Senior Specialist in innovation at the University of Vaasa. She holds a PhD degree in Information Technology (signal processing) from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland (2006), a PhD degree in Economics (innovation management) from the University of Vaasa, Finland (2019), and Master of Arts degree in Education from the University of Tampere (2020). Between 2007 and 2012, she served as Senior Manager in an area of innovation at the Nokia Corporation. During her career at Nokia, she led several collaborative projects between the company and external research institutes, such as universities. She also led and participated in joint educational activities between Nokia and universities. Since 2015, Dr. Kunttu served as a postdoc researcher in an area of innovation at the University of Vaasa. Her current research interests include university-industry collaboration, innovation impact evaluation, and the commercialization of university technologies. U2 - University of Vaasa Dr. Helka Kalliomäki works currently as an Associate Professor (tenure track) in Innovation Policy at the University of Vaasa. She received her PhD degree in human geography in 2012 from the University of Turku. Kalliomäki has a strong track-record in managing and building challenge driven multidisciplinary research projects engaging stakeholders from public and private sector, nationally and internationally. She has also been involved in developing the internationally recognized Turku Urban Research Programme and its collaboration model that has been selected internationally as an best practice of university-city collaboration. Her research expertise is especially related to strategic urban development, innovation environments, and the knowledge base of urban development (e.g. university-city relations). U3 - University of Vaasa Dr. Sorin Dan is a postdoctoral researcher in public sector innovation and renewal at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab research platform, University of Vaasa, and an expert in policy research and public management reform. Dr. Dan earned his PhD at the Public Governance Institute at KU Leuven (2015) and his master’s in public policy and administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2009). Previously he was an in-house consultant in the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate of the OECD. His recent projects include “Digitalisation Academy: Creating and piloting a nationwide model to tackle talent shortage and improve digital competences (DA-PITO)”, funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland and “Support for Developing Better Country Knowledge on Public Administration and Institutional Capacity Building”, funded by the EU. U4 - University of Vaasa Dr. Jari Kuusisto is a science and innovation policy expert with over 20 years of experience in providing in-depth strategic consulting to high-level government agencies, businesses, and international organisations in more than 15 countries, including the EU, OECD, and UN. His expertise focuses on science and innovation policy, university organisational development, strategic change management and research profile development and upgrading. His research has been published in high-level scientific journals such as Research Policy, and he has authored several policy programmes with government agencies, ministries, the OECD, and European Commission. Kuusisto has demonstrable skills in orchestrating large-scale R&D projects, leveraging international resources and personnel across international boundaries, and a proven history of forging key partnerships with private and public sector partners throughout Europe to secure continued funding for research endeavours. ER -