Nayak, Srajal; Yildiran, C; Dias, C; King, M (2024) Visualising the Locations of NPL’s SED Departments and Designated NMS Laboratories Within an Impact Space. NPL Report. IEA 22

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Abstract

This report presents a scoping study that contains the beginnings of a quantitative framework to construct and analyse department-level metrics. These metrics help enhance our understanding of the portfolio of NPL’s SED departments and how they occupy different bits of the impact scape. We extend this analysis to include NEL and NML. We construct department-level metrics from NMS indicators data and analyse them using Principal Component Analysis. The analysis reveals heterogeneity in the work that the NEL, NML, and different SED departments within NPL specialise in. The key takeaway from the PCA is that the departments face an apparent trade-off between activities that generate Current Impacts and activities that have the potential to generate Future Impacts. Moreover, the analysis provides insights into how the departments vary across generating direct, monetizable current impacts and indirect, non-monetizable current impacts (spillovers / externalities). Under the assumption that there is no slack in the system, the analysis provides a neat way to infer the scale of externalities / spillovers that a department might be generating.

Item Type:	Report/Guide (NPL Report)
NPL Report No.:	IEA 22
Subjects:	International
Divisions:	Strategy Directorate
Identification number/DOI:	10.47120/npl.IEA22
Last Modified:	10 Apr 2024 14:16
URI:	http://eprintspublications.npl.co.uk/id/eprint/9962

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