Innovative Models for University Research

by Haden, C. Roland; Brink, Jean R.

• ISBN13: 9780444891730
• ISBN10: 0444891730
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: North-Holland

Summary

This collection of essays describes innovative research mechanisms which universities are using to expand their research support in difficult economic times. Funding pressures have already affected the direction of research in engineering, business, social and behavioral, and natural sciences. Often these pressures have generated healthy cooperation between the universities and the private sector. Likewise, models must be found which provide fresh insights into the humanities, where research may not survive a long siege of economic retrenchment. This volume will help to provide models to those in universities, government and the private sector who are seeking enlightened approaches to both maintaining and expanding university research.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
About the Authors	p. 1
General
Technology Parks and Incubators: A Nexus Between University Science and Industrial Research and Development	p. 11
Research Consortia: The Concurrent Management of Innovation	p. 49
Technology Transfer from Universities: Elements of Success	p. 63
Scholars and Their Publishers: On Being A Maverick	p. 73
Technology Research Collaboration Between Small Companies and Academia: The Federal SBIR Model	p. 95
Independent Research Institutes	p. 115
Changing the Context for University Research: Toward a New Political Economy of Technology	p. 129
Engineering and the Natural Sciences
Research Centers in the Sciences and Engineering	p. 153
Promoting Research in Science and Engineering Departments: A Chair's Perspective	p. 169
Promotion of Engineering Research Through Private Sector Leveraging	p. 189
Humanities and the Social Sciences
Centers and Institutes in the Humanities: Investing in the Past and Future	p. 213
Two Research Models	p. 229
Financing the Humanities and Fine Arts	p. 241
Bringing Sense Into Chaos: Humanities Research in the Computer Age	p. 247
Index	p. 265
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