University-Industry Partnerships: A Program of Benchmarking and Outreach in the EPSCoR States

南方技术理事会（STC）将与18个EPSCoR州和波多黎各联邦的研究型大学合作，在广泛的基础上努力使用基准研究，以更好地了解和改善大学与行业研发关系的政策、实践和绩效。 拟议的项目解决了这样一个事实，即大学现在被要求发挥更广泛的伙伴关系的作用相对于行业。 这些合作超出了技术转让本身，并延伸到以下问题：（1）课程和教学方面的伙伴关系;（2）工业联络结构和服务;（3）大学-工业合作研究;（4）大学-工业-政府在经济发展战略方面的伙伴关系;（5）伙伴关系的资本化;（6）关于大学在“新经济”中作用的社区领导教育。 EPSCoR州立大学参与了所有这些问题。 尽管如此，各机构在结成伙伴关系方面的成功以及对其他地方开发的创新模式的了解方面存在很大差异。 这是使用基准制定纪律的自然场所，其中包括：（1）确定组织活动的一个领域;（2）收集其中的业绩数据（最好是量化的）;（3）确定示范组织为提高该领域业绩而采用的最佳做法和政策;（4）传播和执行成果;（5）循环整个过程。 在拟议的项目中，这一系列步骤将通过执行少量精心挑选的基准研究小型项目来执行。来自EPSCoR国家机构的领导将深入参与这一选择过程，并参与正在进行的项目监督。 拟议的项目将包括对有关大学与行业接口的其他重要主题的基准研究方法。 该项目将编写多达五份主要报告，分发给18个EPSCoR州和波多黎各联邦的大约1 000名学术和社区领导人。

The southern Technology Council (STC) will work with research universities in the 18 EPSCoR states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in a broad-based effort to use benchmarking research to better understand and improve policies, practices, and performance in university-industry R&D relationships. The proposed project addresses the fact that universities are now being called on to play a wider array of partnering roles vis-a-vis industry. These go beyond technology transfer per se, and extend to issues such as: (1) partnerships in curriculum and instruction; (2) industry liaison structures and services; (3) university-industry cooperative research; (4) niversity-industry-government partnerships in economic development strategy; (5) the capitalization of partnerships; and (6) community leadership education on university roles in the "new economy". EPSCoR-state universities are involved in all of these issues. Nonetheless, there is a great variance across institutions in their success in partnering, as well as their knowledge about innovative models that have been developed elsewhere. This is a natural venue for the use of benchmarking discipline that includes: (1) identifying an area of organizational activity; (2) gathering performance data therein (preferably quantified); (3) identifying best practices and policies used by exemplary organizations to enhance performance in that area; (4) dissemination and implementation of results; and (5) recycling the whole process. In the proposed project, this sequence of steps will be followed through the execution of a small number of carefully-selected benchmarking research mini-projects. Leadership from EPSCoR-state institutions will be deeply involved in that selection process, and in ongoing project oversight. The proposed project will include benchmarking research approach to other important topics concerning the university-industry interface. The project will produce up to five major reports which will be disseminated to approximately 1000 academic and community leaders in the 18 EPSCoR states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.