1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961509103321

Titolo

Assessment of the small business innovation research program : project methodology / / Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology and Innovation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : The National Academies Press, c2004

ISBN

9786613376480

9780309165662

0309165660

9781283376488

1283376482

9780309546010

030954601X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 p.)

Disciplina

354.2

Soggetti

Small business - Research - United States

Small business - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""CONTENTS""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""I. METHODOLOGY PAPER""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Overview of the Study Process""; ""3. Clarifying Study Objectives""; ""4. Developing Operational Definitions and Concepts""; ""5. Potential Metrics for Addressing Study Objectives""; ""6. Existing Data Sources""; ""7. Methodology Development: Primary Research""; ""II. ANNEXES""; ""Annex A SBIR Legislation""; ""Annex B Sample Proposal""; ""Annex C Memorandum of Understanding""; ""Annex D Additional Research Areas of Committee Interest""; ""Annex E Bibliography""

""Annex F Research Matrix""""Annex G Issues Related to Sampling""; ""Annex H Committee and Research Team Bios""; ""Annex I Tasks to Further Develop and Implement the Methodology""; ""Annex J Template for Individual Agency Reports""; ""III. RESEARCH TOOLS""; ""1. DRAFT PHASE I SURVEY""; ""2. DRAFT PHASE II SURVEY""; ""3. DRAFT PROGRAM MANAGER SURVEY""; ""4. CASE STUDY TEMPLATE""



Sommario/riassunto

In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the SBIR program at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with budgets in excess of $100 million (DOD, NIH, NASA, DOE, and NSF). The project was designed to answer questions of program operation and effectiveness, including the quality of the research projects being conducted under the SBIR program, the commercialization of the research, and the program's contribution to accomplishing agency missions. This report describes the proposed methodology for the project, identifying how the following tasks will be carried out: 1) collecting and analyzing agency databases and studies; 2) surveying firms and agencies; 3) conducting case studies organized around a common template; and 4) reviewing and analyzing survey and case study results and program accomplishments. Given the heterogeneity of goals and procedures across the five agencies involved, a broad spectrum of evaluative approaches is recommended.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963000803321

Autore

Williams Bernard Arthur Owen

Titolo

On opera / / Bernard Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-300-14228-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Altri autori (Persone)

TannerMichael

Disciplina

782.1

Soggetti

Opera

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending -- Mozart's Figaro : a question of class? -- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism :  responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments



on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production  -- Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.

Sommario/riassunto

Bernard Williams, who died in 2003, was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation. A lifelong opera lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This elegant volume brings together these widely scattered and largely unobtainable pieces, including two that have not been previously published. It covers an engaging range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including sparkling essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. Reflecting Williams's brilliance, passion, and clarity of mind, these essays engage with, and illustrate, the enduring appeal of opera as an art form.