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获得可持续的成功。研究企业基础设施是学术界每一项联邦资助的科学研究活动的基础。关于这一基础设施如何具体促进研究举措的可持续成功，公众可获得的知识有限。此外，研究行政人员的更替导致机构知识和最佳做法的丧失。这些差距使研究机构，特别是新兴研究机构，难以评估经验教训和仿效成功经验，同时发展最能满足其服务的社区需求的研究企业结构。该规划项目创建了一个“研究企业研究”框架，通过以下方式弥补知识差距：1）确定最能满足新兴和发展中研究机构细微差别需求的研究问题和产出战略，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）建立必要的伙伴关系和作用，以成功地进行研究设计和制定全面的实施项目。了解这些要素如何最好地为新兴的研究机构服务，指导研究问题，方法和伙伴关系的确定。通过这一规划项目解决的知识差距将支持加速发展国家研究基础设施，以满足少数民族服务机构、非R1（例如R2-高等研究型博士大学、D/PU-博士/专业大学）和学士/专科学院及其服务的社区的细微需求。通过这项工作提高的能力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NSF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.