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

本初步研究旨在从组织管理的角度确定大型工程学术研究中心如何运作。利用美国国家科学基金会资助的工程研究中心（ERCs）的样本，研究将追求三条探究线：战略规划是如何完成的，ERCs使用三平面图概念模型来制定和描绘他们的战略计划；中心内部的技术综合管理，以及中心的组织效能。该方法包括以各种方式从活跃的生态中心人员，特别是那些参与规划和管理的人员那里获取信息。访谈与问卷调查相结合的方法将被用于收集抗拒使用三平面图表结构来规划、中心目标的对齐、人员和设施的信息；资源分配;利益相关者参与规划；数据见ERC指标数据。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大型、复杂的基于工程的大学-工业研究中心的技术管理的新研究中。研究结果将提供战略规划和技术管理方面的重要信息，并将其整合到一个学术研究中心样本中，并对在这种具有挑战性的管理环境中提高组织效率产生影响。

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.