Unique Challenges and Opportunities for Business Schools in Pursuing Federal Research Grants

非技术描述：尽管拥有许多优势和独特的资产，为杰出的nsf资助研究创造了强大的潜力，但许多商学院也面临着独特的挑战，阻碍了追求和获得研究资助来支持奖学金，这在其他学科中很常见。因此，NSF和许多商学院可能会因为这些动态而错过杰出的资助研究项目。从某种程度上说，商学院未来可能会更倾向于获得资助，因此，目前的研讨会对国家科学基金会和商学院来说都是及时而有益的。更重要的是，如果研究基金能够进一步发挥杠杆作用，将更强大的研究推向市场，这对所有成员和利益相关者都是有价值的，他们可以从对影响个人福祉、劳动力竞争力、研究创新性、学术界和工业界的合作伙伴关系以及提高经济竞争力的问题的更深入的了解中受益——商学院和国家科学基金会都关注这些问题。在国家层面上对高价值研究资源的更深入的洞察、认识和最终更好的整合，可能会对美国商学院的研究市场产生变革性的影响，在未来几十年里，美国国家科学基金会将作为赞助者和合作伙伴发挥越来越重要的作用。技术描述：研讨会的目的是对商学院在申请和管理联邦研究经费时所面临的独特挑战和机遇进行需求评估。参加研讨会的人员将从美国研究型商学院的领导层中抽取。这些领导人将讨论以下问题：阻碍商学院教师提出研究建议的障碍，以及商学院在支持获得和管理资助方面面临的挑战；商学院所拥有的独特优势和资产，使它们在进行杰出研究和获得研究资金方面具有很强的竞争力；可能的战略和最佳做法，以加强和利用寻求赠款的机会，同时尽量减少挑战；以及未来商学院与国家科学基金会的协调、沟通和倡议，以加强资助的研究活动，使所有相关利益相关者受益。一份白皮书将记录这次讲习班，并将予以散发。这将做出独特的贡献，因为商学院的研究方向与对NSF重要的价值观之间的匹配程度可能很高：商学院的研究结合了许多学科的科学和知识，包括数学、经济学、心理学、哲学、社会学等，同时在研究中应用越来越严格的方法和标准。此外，这项研究是在一个重视与商业和社会实际相关的专业范围内进行的。因此，商学院的研究反映了智力价值、多学科或跨学科研究的潜力，以及更广泛影响或为实现社会相关成果做出贡献的价值。此外，人力资本市场的动态可能会导致各个学科的顶尖学者被商学院吸引，从而导致非常活跃和有影响力的研究人员从事与商业相关的研究。然而，尽管有杰出的nsf资助研究的潜力，许多商学院在学术方面面临着独特的挑战，比如强调期刊列表来评估研究，这可能会给跨学科研究带来困难，以及不像其他学科那样鼓励追求研究资助来支持学术的文化。

Non-technical Description:Despite having many strengths and unique assets that create the strong potential for outstanding NSF-funded research, many business schools also face unique challenges that impede the pursuit and acquisition of research grants to support scholarship as is common in other disciplines. Therefore, both NSF and many business schools may be missing outstanding funded research projects because of these dynamics. To the extent that business schools could become more oriented toward grant funding in the future, the present workshop will be timely and helpful for both NSF and business schools. More importantly, if research funds can be leveraged further to bring stronger research to market, this is valuable to all constituents and stakeholders that could benefit from greater insights into issues that affect well-being of individuals, competitiveness of the workforce, innovativeness of research, partnerships between academia and industry, and increased economic competitiveness--all concerns of both business schools and NSF. Greater insight into, awareness of and ultimately better alignment of high value research resources at a national level could have transformative effects across the United States business school research markets in which NSF could play an increasingly key role as a sponsor and partner in the coming decades.Technical Description:The objective of the workshop is to conduct a needs assessment involving the unique challenges and opportunities that business schools specifically face in applying for and administering federal research grants. The workshop attendees will be sampled from college leadership at research-oriented colleges of business in the United States. These leaders will discuss such issues as the barriers that prevent business faculty from pursuing research proposals and the challenges colleges of business face in supporting the acquisition and administration of grants; the unique strengths and assets that business schools possess that make them very competitive for doing outstanding research and for obtaining funding for that work; possible strategies and best practices to enhance and leverage opportunities for pursuing grants, while minimizing the challenges; and ideas for future business school-NSF coordination, communication and initiatives to enhance funded research activity that would benefit all relevant stakeholders. A white paper will document this workshop and will be disseminated. This will make a unique contribution because the match between business school research orientations and values important to NSF is potentially high: Business school research combines science and knowledge from many disciplines, including mathematics, economics, psychology, philosophy, sociology and others while applying increasingly rigorous methods and standards in research. In addition, this research is conducted within a profession that values practical relevance to business and society. Thus, business school research reflects high value on intellectual merit, the potential for multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research, as well as value on broader impacts or contributing to the achievement of societally relevant outcomes. Further, human capital market dynamics may result in top scholars from various disciplines being attracted to business schools resulting very active and influential researchers doing business-related research. Yet, despite potential for outstanding NSF-funded research, many business schools wrestle with unique challenges in scholarship, such as an emphasis on journal lists to evaluate research which may present difficulties for pursuing interdisciplinary research as well as a culture that does not promote the pursuit of research grants to support scholarship as is common in other disciplines.