%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2014 %T Assessing Scientific Contributions: A Proposed Framework and Its Application to Cybersecurity %A Dan Craigen %K assessing science %K cybersecurity %K science of cybersecurity %K scientific contributions %K scientific progress %K societal contributions %X Through a synthesis of existing work on evaluating scientific theories and contributions, a framework for assessing scientific contributions is presented. By way of example, the framework is then applied to two contributions to the science of cybersecurity. The science of cybersecurity is slowly emerging. As the science and its theories emerge, it is important to extract the key contributions that characterize actual progress in our understanding of cybersecurity. Researchers and funding agencies will be interested in the assessment framework as a means of assessing scientific contributions to cybersecurity. In a nascent research area such as the science of cybersecurity, this article may contribute to a focused research program to accelerate the growth of the science. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 4 %P 5-13 %8 11/2014 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/844 %N 11 %1 Communications Security Establishment Dan Craigen is a Science Advisor at the Communications Security Establishment in Canada. Previously, he was President of ORA Canada, a company that focused on High Assurance/Formal Methods and distributed its technology to over 60 countries. His research interests include formal methods, the science of cybersecurity, and technology transfer. He was the chair of two NATO research task groups pertaining to validation, verification, and certification of embedded systems and high-assurance technologies. He received his BScH and MSc degrees in Mathematics from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/844