An Analysis of the Activity and Performance of University- Industry Research Centers in the United States

本研究的重点是大学-工业研究合作中心（UIRC）和迄今为止最完整的UIRC数据库，该数据库由福特基金会主要资助。这项研究将提供最完整的分析和扩展现有的数据。审查UIRC的资助者、公司/行业成员/ UIRC预算规模、研究领域、成员的成本和收益、收益-成本比、出版物、培训的学生、学位、专利和其他投入和产出之间的关系。整个数据库和分析可供其他研究使用。除了对数据库进行完整的统计分析之外，后续电话访谈还提供了额外的定性信息，包括一些行业经理对国际自然联盟成员资格的收益和成本/优势和劣势的初步调查。＊＊＊

*** 9421958 Cohen This study is focused on University-Industry Research Cooperative Centers (UIRC) and the most complete data base about UIRC's yet collected with principal funding by the Ford Foundation. This study will provide the most complete analysis and extension of the available data. Relationships between the funder(s) of UIRC's, the firms/industry membership/size of UIRC budgets, areas of research, costs and benefits to members, benefit-cost ratios, publications, students trained, degrees, patents, and other inputs and outputs are examined. The entire data base and analysis is available to other researches. In addition to complete statistical analysis of the data base follow-up telephone interviews provide additional qualitative information including initial probes of some industry managers of the benefits and costs/advantages and disadvantages of IURC membership. ***