Ethical and Value Issues in Research Centers

研究中心的道德和价值观问题

• 批准号: 8711341
• 负责人: Deborah Johnson
• 金额: $ 16.44万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-09-01 至 1990-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8711341&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ethical; Value; Issues; Research; Centers

The creation of university research centers to encourage collaboration among academe, industry and government in the conduct of science and technology is a relatively new phenomenon in this country. The aim of this project is to explore what happens to the values of these three sectors when they come together in these settings. This effort itself is a collaboration between four scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, political science and sociology. They will use their disciplinary perspectives and methods, including normative, organizational, structural and ethnographic analysis, in an intensive, on-site examination of the negotiation of values, including concerns for professional success, control, and management, in two research centers located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Center for Manufacturing Productivity and Technology Transfer and the Center for Composite Materials and Structures. A four-member board incorporating business, government, and public interest perspectives, will advise the project; and the study will be augmented by an exchange of ideas and data with an investigation of other university-industry interactions currently underway in RPI's Center for Science and Technology Policy. Results will be disseminated in articles for disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals. Special mailings of "Working Papers" will be made to administrators and policymakers, and the findings should also be appropriate for sessions at meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Social Studies of Science. Involvement at the centers should also lead to channels of publication to audiences interested in the centers' activities. This project can make a unique contribution to the development, application, and evaluation of collaborative research agendas and methods in science and technology studies. It will also provide the first intensive, longitudinal examination of the processes and products of negotiating values in these new institutional settings. The investigators are exceptionally well qualified; graduate students are involved; institutional support and cooperation is excellent. The use of an advisory board and interaction with another related investigation will help to assure broader relevance and balance. This is a good example of the kind of cross-disciplinary research EVS should encourage. Results are likely to be useful and widely disseminated. Costs are reasonable. Total support in the amount of $164,374 is recommended, of which $96,000 is awarded now, from the Directorate for Engineering and the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

在这个国家，建立大学研究中心以鼓励学术界、产业界和政府在开展科技活动方面进行合作是一个相对较新的现象。这个项目的目的是探索当这三个部门的价值观在这些背景下汇聚在一起时会发生什么。这一努力本身就是来自哲学、政治学和社会学学科的四位学者的合作成果。他们将使用他们的学科视角和方法，包括规范、组织、结构和人种学分析，在伦斯勒理工学院的两个研究中心--制造生产力和技术转移中心和复合材料和结构中心--对价值观谈判进行深入的现场审查，包括对专业成功、控制和管理的关注。一个包含商业、政府和公共利益视角的四人委员会将为该项目提供建议；这项研究将通过与RPI科学和技术政策中心目前正在进行的其他大学与行业互动的调查来加强想法和数据的交流。结果将在学科和跨学科期刊的文章中传播。将向管理人员和政策制定者专门邮寄“工作文件”，其结果也应适用于美国科学促进会和科学社会研究学会的会议。中心的参与还应为对中心活动感兴趣的受众提供出版渠道。该项目可以为科学技术研究中协作研究议程和方法的开发、应用和评估做出独特的贡献。它还将首次深入、纵向地审查在这些新的机构环境中谈判价值观的过程和结果。调查人员非常合格；研究生参与其中；机构支持和合作非常出色。利用一个咨询委员会并与另一项相关调查进行互动，将有助于确保更广泛的相关性和平衡。这是电动汽车应该鼓励的那种跨学科研究的一个很好的例子。结果可能是有用的，并被广泛传播。成本是合理的。建议提供总额为164,374美元的支助，其中96,000美元现已由工程局和数学和自然科学局提供。