Program to Assist EPSCoR Participants in Enhancing Their Research Competitiveness

1993年，美国科学促进会（AAAS）发起了一项努力，协助国家科学基金会和各州EPSCoR计划，以更清楚地了解各州在研究方面的竞争力概念，制定评估竞争力及其进展的标准，并确定提高竞争力的策略。这一努力取得了重要的成果，提高了人们对是什么使国家、机构和个人在研究中具有竞争力的理解。研究结果发表在美国科学促进会1996年初出版的《学术研究中的竞争力》一书中（编辑阿尔伯特·h·泰希）。目前的提案寻求支持建立在这一知识基础上，并利用AAAS的资源在EPSCoR项目参与者和更广泛的科学技术界之间建立更紧密的联系。拟议的项目将包括三个要素：(1)领导能力发展计划，协助EPSCoR各州发展和培养与更广泛的科学界的联系。这一要素将包括为方案协调组人员举行一系列区域会议，目的是使他们有机会系统地思考围绕其方案的概念和实际问题；(2)提供技术援助推广服务，协助EPSCoR成员国制定科学和技术发展计划，并将这些计划纳入更广泛的经济和社会发展战略。在这一项目要素下，将组建一支世界级专家团队，为各州EPSCoR项目提供帮助，协助他们进行规划和提案制定工作；(3)通过研究竞争力的性质和各种战略的相对有效性来丰富EPSCoR计划的知识框架的努力，旨在实现这一目标，扩展和利用在最初的AAAS EPSCoR项目下开始的工作，并从中获得额外的价值。一个由AAAS科学、工程和公共政策委员会（COSEPP）组成的杰出咨询委员会，包括COSEPP的成员，EPSCOR州项目主管以及其他具有相关观点和专业知识的人员将监督项目的各个方面。该项目计划运行三年。

9634545 Teich In 1993, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) initiated an effort to assist NSF and the state EPSCoR programs in developing a clearer understanding of the concept of a state's competitiveness in research, developing criteria for assessing competitiveness and its progress over time, and identifying strategies to enhance competitiveness. This effort has yielded important results which have improved the understanding of what makes states, institutions, and individuals competitive in research. The results are in a book published by AAAS early in 1996 entitled, Competitiveness in Academic Research (Albert H. Teich, editor). The present proposal seeks support to build on this intellectual base and use AAAS's resources to build closer ties between the EPSCoR program participants and the broader science and technology community. The proposed project will have three elements: (1) A leadership development program to assist EPSCoR states in developing and nurturing ties to the broader scientific community. This element will include a series of regional meetings for EPSCoR personnel aimed at giving them the opportunity to think systematically about the conceptual and practical issues surrounding their programs; (2) A technical assistance extension service to work with EPSCoR states in shaping their science and technology development plans and integrating those plans into broader economic and social development strategies. Under this project element, a team of world-class experts will be developed and made available to state EPSCoR programs to assist them in their planning and proposal development efforts; (3) An effort to enrich the intellectual framework of the EPSCoR program through an examination of the nature of competitiveness in research and the relative efficacy of various strategies aimed at achieving it, extending and exploiting the work begun under the initial AAAS EPSCoR project and gaining additional value from i t. A distinguished advisory committee constituted by the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPP) and including members of COSEPP, state EPSCOR project directors, and others with relevant perspectives and expertise, will oversee all aspects of the project. The project is planned to run for three years.