Evaluating university industry collaborative research centers

Abstract

This research provides performance metrics for cooperative research centers that enhance translational research through partnerships formed by government, industry and academia. Centers are part of complex ecosystems and vary greatly in the type of science conducted, organizational structures and expected outcomes. The ability to realize their objectives depends on transparent measurement systems to assist in decision making in research translation. We introduce a hierarchical decision model that uses both quantitative and qualitative metrics. A generalizable model is developed based upon program goals. The results are validated through consultation with experts. The method is illustrated using data from the National Science Foundation's industry/university cooperative research center (IUCRC) program. The methodology provides a basis for a generalizable model and measurement system to compares performance of university science and engineering focused research centers supported by industry and government.

Prácticas en la gestión de colaboraciones científicas y tecnológicas universidad-industria desde las unidades de investigación universitarias

“…Una práctica ampliamente reportada en Estados Unidos, Suecia y Noruega es la formación de centros de investigación colaborativos (CRC), en donde empleados de una empresa e investigadores de las unidades de investigación universitarias pueden trabajar de forma conjunta en los proyectos de colaboración (Adams, Chiang, y Starkey, 2001;Geisler, Furino, y Kiresuk, 1991;Gibson, Daim, y Dabic, 2019;D. Gray et al, 2011;Leonchuk y Gray, 2019;Schultz, 2012;Thune y Gulbrandsen, 2011).…”

“…Esta modalidad de trabajo conjunto ofrece beneficios tales como la formación de los investigadores en conjunto con la experiencia de quienes trabajan en la industria. El caso de Estados Unidos (D. Gray et al, 2011) ha marcado la dirección de esta práctica. Se enmarca en el programa Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) apoyado por la National Science Foundation (NSF) para áreas de conocimiento estratégicas en el marco nacional.…”

Engineering Basis Of Interaction Of University With Industry And Regional Government

“…Moreover, the search for such a creatively complex balance for a specific project is currently being implemented on an entirely new basis, different from existing forms of cooperation in the past (classical and non-classical) periods of development of science. In our opinion, this fundamentally new research situation, based on modern types of interdisciplinary integration, is very well explained by the authors of the article (Gibson et al, 2019). This article emphasizes that for all the importance for the development of national science and technology of the close interaction of innovative organizations such as a university, industry firm and regional government, their influence on the scientific activity of an individual scientist is not rarely studied in the literature.…”

A Review and Comprehensive Analysis of the Performance of University – Construction Industry Collaboration

“…From university perspective, the literature review revealed performance indicators of UIC. Indeed, the most frequent UIC performance indicators were (1) number of publications [16,29,31,34,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], (2) number of registered patents [3,7,16,20,29,37,40,48,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58], (3) number of occurrences for each UIC activity (consulting and services, research, and training and education) [6,21,33,37,47,50,[59][60][61][62][63], (4) number of generated start-ups and spinoffs [16,37,…”