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COMPETITIVENESS
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH
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What does it take for a university to become competitive in research?
How do weaker institutions become more competitive and how should
they gauge their progress? Can operationally- meaningful indicators
of research competitiveness be developed and applied? These questions
are increasingly important in an academic environment characterized
by shrinking finances, growing expectations, and political cross-pressures.
The papers in this book seek to answer these questions while
examining the relationship between research competitiveness and
the sometimes conflicting roles of the university in educating
its students, serving its community, and helping to stimulate
economic development in its region.
Competitiveness in Academic Research is the product of
a two-year study conducted by AAAS and funded by the National
Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive
Research. EPSCoR is an effort to build federal-state partnerships
aimed at cultivating the research capabilities of universities
in the states which receive the least federal funding.
The AAAS study examined research competitiveness in several ways:
through case studies of five EPSCoR states; through a series of
focus group discussions with practitioners (scientists, administrators
and policy makers); through a set of commissioned papers by distinguished
experts examining the changing environment of research universities
and several aspects of competitiveness; and through an invitational
conference, held in April 1995, involving about 40 participants
from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. All of these
components are represented in this important new book.
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Competitiveness in
Academic Research
Albert H. Teich
editor
Committee on Science, Engineering
and Public Policy
American Association for
the Advancement of Science
Copyright 1996 by the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
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