Evaluation and Assessment Program for the Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) Program

产学合作研究中心（IUCRC）项目评估评估方案

• 批准号: 1732084
• 负责人: Philip Weilerstein
• 金额: $ 914.24万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1732084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Evaluation; Assessment; Program; Industry; University

The intellectual merit of this proposal is to provide rigorous and structured monitoring and evaluation of the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) program to better inform the IUCRC Community with knowledge and best practices that will enhance the effectiveness and success potential for the program in achieving its goals. Key goals of the IUCRC program include the following: Contributing to the nation's research enterprise by developing long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government; Leveraging NSF funds with industry to support graduate students performing industrially relevant pre-competitive research; Expanding the innovation capacity of our nation's competitive workforce through partnerships between industries and universities; and Encouraging the nation's research enterprise to remain competitive through active engagement with academic and industrial leaders throughout the world. This grant will support a program that will seek to provide critical, timely and ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of the IUCRC program to the recipients of IUCRC Program awards as well as the broader industrial community engaged in the IUCRC activities. The insight and knowledge gained on the catalysts that drive enhanced effectiveness of funded IUCRC centers will be critical in informing the IUCRC community and the NSF. This knowledge will enable the creation and sustenance of a vibrant and robust program, while also providing critical insights to NSF to better support a vast, rich and highly heterogeneous group of center ecosystems. The insights and knowledge gained through the proposed evaluation and assessment activities will help ensure that the vision and mission of the IUCRC program is well supported and further enhanced. The broader impact of this project will be the enhancement of the IUCRC Program and its ability to deliver innovations to address societal needs through effective Industry-University Collaborations. Effective and robust program assessment and monitoring will help accelerate the sustainability of strong centers that can achieve NSF's published goals for the IUCRC centers. This assessment program will be critical in ensuring that public funds are effectively spent on maintaining the highest caliber IUCRC center network, while serving as a transformative vehicle for the translation of pre-competitive research and development activities into industrial use through university collaborations. This will in the long term ensure that the IUCRC program continues to remain robust, grow effectively and have a sustainable long term commercial and societal impact.

该提案的智力价值是为行业/大学合作研究中心（IUCRC）计划提供严格和结构化的监测和评估，以更好地为IUCRC社区提供知识和最佳实践，从而提高该计划实现其目标的有效性和成功潜力。 IUCRC计划的主要目标包括以下内容：通过发展行业，企业和政府之间的长期合作伙伴关系，为国家的研究企业做出贡献;利用NSF基金与行业，以支持研究生进行工业相关的竞争前研究;通过行业和大学之间的合作伙伴关系，扩大我们国家竞争力劳动力的创新能力;鼓励国家的研究企业通过与世界各地的学术和工业领袖积极参与保持竞争力。这笔赠款将支持一项计划，该计划将寻求为IUCRC计划奖项的获得者以及参与IUCRC活动的更广泛的工业界提供IUCRC计划有效性的关键，及时和持续的评估。在推动资助的IUCRC中心提高效率的催化剂上获得的洞察力和知识对于通知IUCRC社区和NSF至关重要。这些知识将有助于创建和维持一个充满活力和强大的计划，同时也为NSF提供重要的见解，以更好地支持一个庞大，丰富和高度异质的中心生态系统。通过拟议的评价和评估活动获得的见解和知识将有助于确保IUCRC计划的愿景和使命得到很好的支持和进一步加强。 该项目的更广泛影响将是加强IUCRC计划及其通过有效的产学合作提供创新以满足社会需求的能力。有效和强大的计划评估和监测将有助于加速强大中心的可持续性，从而实现NSF为IUCRC中心公布的目标。这项评估计划将是至关重要的，以确保公共资金有效地用于维持最高水平的IUCRC中心网络，同时作为一个变革性的工具，通过大学合作，将竞争前的研究和开发活动转化为工业用途。从长远来看，这将确保IUCRC计划继续保持稳健，有效增长，并产生可持续的长期商业和社会影响。