Planning: Advancing Discovery on a Sustainable National Research Enterprise

该项目开发了一个研究框架，以了解研究企业基础设施如何使大型联邦资助奖项的可持续成功。研究型企业基础设施支撑着学术界每一项联邦政府资助的科学研究活动。关于这种基础设施如何特别促进研究计划的可持续成功，存在着有限的、可公开获取的知识。此外，研究行政人员的流动导致了机构知识和最佳实践的丧失。这些差距使得研究机构，特别是新兴的研究机构，在发展最能满足它们所服务的社区的需要的研究企业结构的同时，很难评估所吸取的经验教训和模仿成功。该规划项目创建了一个“研究型企业的研究”框架，通过以下方式解决知识差距：1)确定最能满足新兴和发展中研究机构细微需求的研究问题和产出策略；2)确定适当的方法来获取大学研究企业团队和项目领导知识；3)建立成功的研究设计和全面实施项目开发所必需的伙伴关系和角色。了解这些要素如何最好地为新兴研究机构服务，可以指导确定研究问题、方法和伙伴关系。通过该规划项目解决的知识差距将支持国家研究基础设施的加速发展，以满足少数民族服务机构（msi）、非r1（例如r2高研究博士大学、D/ pu博士/专业大学）、学士/副学士学院及其服务社区的细微需求。通过这项工作，能力的提高将有助于确保科学的进步和应用能够更好地满足整个国家的需求。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project develops a research framework to understand how research enterprise infrastructure enables the sustainable success of large, federally funded awards. Research enterprise infrastructure underpins every federally funded scientific research activity in academia. Limited, publicly accessible knowledge exists about how this infrastructure specifically facilitates the sustainable success of research initiatives. Moreover, turnover in the research administration workforce has resulted in the loss of institutional knowledge and best practices. These gaps make it difficult for research institutions, especially emerging research institutions, to evaluate lessons learned and emulate successes while developing research enterprise structures that best meet the needs of the communities they serve. This planning project creates a “research on the research enterprise” framework to address the knowledge gap by: 1) identifying the research questions and output strategies that will best meet the nuanced needs of emerging and developing research institutions, 2) determining the appropriate methodologies to capture university research enterprise team and project leadership knowledge, and 3) establishing the partnerships and roles necessary for the success of the research design and development of a full-scale implementation project. Understanding how these elements can best serve emerging research institutions guides the identification of research questions, methodologies, and partnerships. The knowledge gaps addressed through this planning project will support the accelerated development of a national research infrastructure that is responsive to the nuanced needs of minority serving institutions (MSIs), non-R1 (e.g. R2-high research doctoral universities, D/PU-doctoral/professional universities), and baccalaureate/associate’s colleges and communities they serve. The increased capacity enabled through this work will help ensure that the advancement and application of science can better respond to the needs of the entire nation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.