Expanding the Industries of Ideas: Understanding the link between research investments, jobs, and skills

Man’s face looking into a computer screen in an open plan working office. Type is being added to the screen by an Artificial intelligence, AI, chatbot.
Stock image showing a black man’s face looking into a computer screen in an open plan working office. Type is being added to the screen by an Artificial intelligence, AI, chatbot.

The immediate goal of the project is to identify what timely, local, actionable information tools can measure and describe the impact of NSF/TIP investments in critical and emerging technologies. The focus is documenting the impact of investments in Artificial Intelligence on jobs and skills so that stakeholder communities can proactively support the creation of high-wage, high demand, high skill jobs. This project represents the first phase of a large project. It is intended to build community consensus about the data, methodology and measurement necessary to support production of timely, local, and actionable information tools. The projects particular focus is to describe the regional effects of research investment on high wage, high demand, high skill (H3) jobs with and regional economic development associated with NSF AI Institutes and Regional Innovation Engines.