An Analysis of the Activity and Performance of University- Industry Research Centers in the United States

* 9421958科恩 本研究的重点是大学-产业研究合作中心（UIRC）和最完整的数据库UIRC的主要资金由福特基金会收集。这项研究将提供最完整的分析和现有数据的扩展。UIRC的，公司/行业成员/UIRC预算的规模，研究领域，成本和效益的成员，效益成本比，出版物，学生培训，学位，专利和其他投入和产出的资助者之间的关系进行检查。整个数据库和分析可用于其他研究。除了对数据库进行完整的统计分析外，后续电话访谈还提供了更多的定性信息，包括对一些行业管理人员关于IURC成员资格的好处和成本/利弊的初步调查。 ***

*** 9421958 Cohen This study is focused on University-Industry Research Cooperative Centers (UIRC) and the most complete data base about UIRC's yet collected with principal funding by the Ford Foundation. This study will provide the most complete analysis and extension of the available data. Relationships between the funder(s) of UIRC's, the firms/industry membership/size of UIRC budgets, areas of research, costs and benefits to members, benefit-cost ratios, publications, students trained, degrees, patents, and other inputs and outputs are examined. The entire data base and analysis is available to other researches. In addition to complete statistical analysis of the data base follow-up telephone interviews provide additional qualitative information including initial probes of some industry managers of the benefits and costs/advantages and disadvantages of IURC membership. ***