Trends in Industrial Support of University-Based Cooperative Research

该奖项支持一项研究，该研究旨在调查与学院和大学合作研究的私营企业发生了多大程度的变化，以及任何变化是如何影响企业支持学术研究中心的意愿的。其中一个主要的假设是，由于各种原因，私营部门对通用研究的态度已经发生了广泛的重新定位，导致对大学研究的兴趣或需要的资金支持减少。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；(2)确定组织和经济因素对支持中心研究的资金可用性趋势的影响。由于该项目的重点是工业研究的管理，因此重点将放在已建立的公司，而不是小公司的行为和管理上。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通过更好地理解压力、要求和利益对企业参与此类企业的程度和方式的影响而受益匪浅。

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.