Strategic Planning and the Management of Technology in National Science Foundation-Funded Engineering Research Centers

国家自然科学基金委工程研究中心的战略规划与技术管理

• 批准号: 0345195
• 负责人: Steve Currall
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0345195&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategic; Planning; Management; Technology; National

This pilot study seeks to determine empirically how large engineering-based academic research centers function from an organizational management perspective. Using sample of NSF-funded Engineering Research Centers (ERCs), the study will be pursure three lines of inquiry: how strategic planning is done and the utility of the Three-Plane Chart conceptual model ERCs use to develop and portray their strategic plans; general management of technology within the centers, and the organizational effectiveness of ERCs. The methodology includes obtaining information in a variety of ways from personnel from active ERCs, particularly those involved in planning and management. A combination of interviewing and surveying through questionnaires will be used to collect information about resistence to using the three-plane chart construct for planning, the alignment of center goals, personnel, and facilities; resource allocation; the involvement of stakeholders in planning; and data in the ERC Indicators Data. A Technical Advisory Committee will ensure that the centers' research context will be included in this novel study of management of technology within large, complex engineering-based university-industry research centers. The results will provide important information on strategic planning and management of technology are integrated in a sample of academic research centers and implications for enhanced organizational effectiveness in this challenging management setting.

这项试点研究旨在确定经验如何从组织管理的角度大型工程为基础的学术研究中心的功能。 以NSF资助的工程研究中心（ERC）为样本，本研究将探讨三个问题：战略规划是如何完成的，ERC使用三平面图概念模型来制定和描绘他们的战略计划;中心内的技术管理，以及ERC的组织有效性。该方法包括以各种方式从积极的伦理委员会人员，特别是参与规划和管理的人员那里获得信息。 通过问卷调查和访谈相结合的方式，将收集有关使用三平面图结构进行规划的阻力、中心目标、人员和设施的一致性、资源分配、利益相关者参与规划的情况以及ERC指标数据中的数据等信息。 一个技术咨询委员会将确保这些中心的研究背景将包括在这项关于大型、复杂的以工程为基础的大学-工业研究中心技术管理的新研究中。 研究结果将提供重要的信息，战略规划和技术管理整合在一个样本的学术研究中心，并在这一具有挑战性的管理环境中提高组织效率的影响。