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联邦资助的大额奖项取得可持续成功。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倡议的可持续成功，存在着有限的、可公开获取的知识。此外，研究管理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，难以在制定最符合其所服务社区需要的研究企业结构的同时，评价所吸取的经验教训并仿效成功经验。该规划项目创建了一个“研究企业研究”框架，通过以下方式解决知识鸿沟：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)确定获取大学研究企业团队和项目领导知识的适当方法；3)建立研究设计和开发全面实施项目成功所必需的伙伴关系和作用。了解这些要素如何才能最好地为新兴研究机构服务，有助于确定研究问题、方法和伙伴关系。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，以满足少数群体服务机构(MSI)、非R1(例如R2-高等研究型博士大学、D/PU-博士/专业大学)以及它们所服务的文凭/副学士学院和社区的微妙需求。通过这项工作增加的能力将有助于确保科学的进步和应用能够更好地响应整个国家的需求。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.