From Research to Market: Development of a Transition Process to Integrate Sustainable Scaling Methodologies to Innovation Research Design and Development

The purpose of this project was to support IES' goal to encourage the scaling of effective research and development investments via commercialization. As a result of the project, SRI International authored From Research to Market: Development of a Transition Process to Integrate Sustainable Scaling Methodologies into Education Innovation Research Design and Development (see full citation below).

To begin, SRI conducted a brief scan of extant literature on best practices in scaling research-based innovations across a wide range of sectors. Then, with the help of a standing Advisory Council of four members and a set of expert panelists—including IES principal investigators with experience scaling their innovations, venture capitalists, and district leaders—SRI adapted the "invent-apply-transition" (I-A-T) framework to the education research use-case. Finally, SRI developed a simple tool that details a parsimonious set of screening criteria that would allow IES to select current and/or former grantees whose evidence-based educational interventions are likely candidates for effective scaling using the I-A-T process identified in the report.