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

这项初步研究试图从组织管理的角度实证地确定大型工程学术研究中心的运作方式。利用美国国家科学基金会资助的工程研究中心(ERCs)的样本，本研究将确定三条线索：如何进行战略规划，以及ERCs用来制定和描绘其战略计划的三平面图概念模型的效用；中心内技术的一般管理，以及ERCs的组织有效性。这一方法包括以各种方式从现役应急中心的人员，特别是参与规划和管理的人员那里获得信息。将采用访谈和问卷调查相结合的方式，收集有关抵制使用三平面图结构进行规划的信息，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，以及环境资源中心指标数据中的数据。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-工业研究中心内的技术管理的新颖研究中。研究结果将提供有关战略规划和技术管理的重要信息，这些信息将被整合到学术研究中心的样本中，并对在这一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.