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Research Universities and the Future of America

Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Research Universities

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Research Universities and the Future of America

Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Research Universities

Research Universities and the Future of America presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation's research universities contribute strongly to America's prosperity, security, and national goals. Widely considered the best in the world, our nation's research universities today confront significant financial pressures, important advances in technology, a changing demographic landscape, and increased international competition. This report provides a course of action for ensuring our universities continue to produce the knowledge, ideas, and talent the United States needs to be a global leader in the 21st century. Research Universities and the Future of America focuses on strengthening and expanding the partnership among universities and government, business, and philanthropy that has been central to American prosperity and security. The report focuses on the top 10 actions that Congress, the federal government, state governments, research universities, and others could take to strengthen the research and education missions of our research universities, their relationships with other parts of the national research enterprise, and their ability to transfer new knowledge and ideas to those who productively use them in our society and economy. This report examines trends in university finance, prospects for improving university operations, opportunities for deploying technology, and improvement in the regulation of higher education institutions. It also explores ways to improve pathways to graduate education, take advantage of opportunities to increase student diversity, and realign doctoral education for the careers new doctorates will follow. Research Universities and the Future of America is an important resource for policy makers on the federal and state levels, university administrators, philanthropic organizations, faculty, technology transfer specialists, libraries, and researchers.

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0309256399

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Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks

Global Best Practices: Report of a Symposium

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century

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Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks

Global Best Practices: Report of a Symposium

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century

Many nations are currently adopting a variety of directed strategies to launch and support research parks, often with significant financial commitments and policy support. By better understanding how research parks of other nations operate, we can seek to improve the scale and contributions of parks in the U.S. To that end, the National Academies convened an international conference on global best practices in research parks. This volume, a report of the conference, includes discussion of the diverse roles that research parks in both universities and laboratories play in national innovation systems. The presentations identify common challenges and demonstrate substantial differences in research park programs around the world.

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0309137896

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9780309137898

The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain

Proceedings of a Symposium

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on International Scientific Organizations,Office of International Scientific and Technical Information Programs,Steering Committee on the Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain

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The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain

Proceedings of a Symposium

This symposium brought together leading experts and managers from the public and private sectors who are involved in the creation, dissemination, and use of scientific and technical data and information (STI) to: (1) describe and discuss the role and the benefits and costsâ€"both economic and otherâ€"of the public domain in STI in the research and education context, (2) to identify and analyze the legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in STI in research and education, (3) describe and discuss existing and proposed approaches to preserving the public domain in STI in the United States, and (4) identify issues that may require further analysis.

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030908850X

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9780309088503

Moving Beyond Myths

Revitalizing Undergraduate Mathematics

By: National Research Council,Mathematical Sciences Education Board,Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000

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Moving Beyond Myths

Revitalizing Undergraduate Mathematics

By: National Research Council,Mathematical Sciences Education Board,Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000

Over the next decade, the mathematical community and the nation's colleges and unversities must restructure fundamentally the culture, content, and context of undergraduate mathematics. Acknowledging the weaknesses in the present college mathematics curriculum and the ways in which it is taught, this book cites exemplary programs that point the way toward achieving the same world-wide preeminence for mathematics education that the United States enjoys in mathematical research. Moving Beyond Myths sets forth ambitious goals for collegiate mathematics by the year 2000 and provides a sweeping plan of action to accomplish them. It calls on mathematics faculty, their departments, their professional societies, colleges and universities, and government agencies to do their parts to implement the plan, help the public move beyond commonly held myths about mathematics, and bring about a revitalization of undergraduate mathematics.

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0309044898

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Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives

Competing in the 21st Century

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives

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Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives

Competing in the 21st Century

Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the state level, with the goal of improving the public's understanding of key policy strategies and exemplary practices. Based on a series of workshops and conferences that brought together policymakers along with leaders of industry and academia in a select number of states, the study highlights a rich variety of policy initiatives underway at the state and regional level to foster knowledge based growth and employment. Perhaps what distinguishes this effort at the state level is most of all the high degree of pragmatism. Operating out of necessity, innovation policies at the state level often involve taking advantage of existing resources and recombining them in new ways, forging innovative partnerships among universities, industry and government organizations, growing the skill base, and investing in the infrastructure to develop new technologies and new industries. Many of these initiatives are being guided by leaders from the private sector and universities. The objective of Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives: Competing in the 21st Century is not to do an empirical review of the inputs and outputs of various state programs. Nor is it to evaluate which programs are superior. Indeed, some of the notable successes, such as the Albany nanotechnology cluster, represent a leap of leadership, investment, and sustained commitment that has had remarkable results in an industry that is actively pursued by many countries. The study's goal is to illustrate the approaches taken by a variety of highly diverse states as they confront the increasing challenges of global competition for the industries and jobs of today and tomorrow.

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0309287375

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Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research

A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements: A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century

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Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research

A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century

Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and fundamental discoveries that enhance our lives and the lives of others around the world. These institutions help to create an educated citizenry capable of making informed and crucial choices as participants in a democratic society. However many are concerned that the unintended cumulative effect of federal regulations undercuts the productivity of the research enterprise and diminishes the return on the federal investment in research. Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research reviews the regulatory framework as it currently exists, considers specific regulations that have placed undue and often unanticipated burdens on the research enterprise, and reassesses the process by which these regulations are created, reviewed, and retired. This review is critical to strengthen the partnership between the federal government and research institutions, to maximize the creation of new knowledge and products, to provide for the effective training and education of the next generation of scholars and workers, and to optimize the return on the federal investment in research for the benefit of the American people.

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0309379482

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Research Universities and the Future of America

Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Research Universities

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Research Universities and the Future of America

Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Research Universities

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Book's by Committee on Research Universities

Research Universities and the Future of America

Research Universities and the Future of America

Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks

Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks

The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain

The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain

Moving Beyond Myths

Moving Beyond Myths

Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives

Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives

Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research

Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research

Research Universities and the Future of America

Research Universities and the Future of America

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