Trends in Industrial Support of University-Based Cooperative Research

EEC 98-17827 Hill本奖项支持一项研究，该研究考察了与学院和大学合作研究的私营部门公司正在发生的变化程度，以及任何变化如何影响公司支持学术研究中心的意愿。其中一个主要假设是，由于各种原因，私营部门对仿制药研究的态度发生了广泛的重新定位，导致对大学研究的兴趣或提供财政支持的需要减少。该项目的目标是(1)评估私营部门向产学研中心提供的资金水平的变化；以及(2)确定导致观察到的支持中心研究的资金可获得性趋势的组织和经济因素。由于该项目的重点是工业研究的管理，因此重点将是老牌公司，而不是小公司的行为和管理。通过更好地了解哪些压力、要求和利益会影响企业参与此类企业的程度和方式，参与由联邦政府项目资助的数百个工业大学研究中心的机构、大学和研究人员应该会大大受益。

EEC 98-17827HillThis award supports a study that examines the extent to which changes are occurring in private sector firms that engage in cooperative research with colleges and universities and how, if at all, any changes are affecting the willingness of the firms to support academic research centers. One of the major hypotheses is that there has been a broad reorientation of the private sector's attitude toward generic research for a variety of reasons, resulting in less interest in or need to provide financial support of university research. The project objectives are (1) to assess changes in the level of funds provided by the private sector to industry-university research centers; and (2) to identify the organizational and economic factors that have contributed to the observed trends in the availability of funds to support center research. Since the project's emphasis is on the management of research in industry, the focus will be established firms, not small-firm conduct and management. The agencies, universities, and researchers involved in the hundreds of industry-university research centers funded by Federal Government programs should benefit substantially through a better understanding of what pressures, requirements, and interests affect the extent and manner in which firms participate in such enterprises.