This report summarizes discussions and insights from the workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research held March 23-24, 1998, in Irvine, California. The workshop was organized by the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss barriers to university-industry cooperation and to explore concrete approaches to overcoming them. Practitioners from universities and industry, as well as government policy makers, participated in the two-day workshop.
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable
1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Trends in University-Industry Research Collaboration; 5 3 Barriers and Lessons of Effective Practices; 6 4 Possible Future Tasks; 7 Appendix A. Francis Via Presentation; 8 Appendix B. Teri Willey Presentation; 9 Appendix C. University-Industry Collaborations Discussed at the Workshop; 10 Appendix D. Workshop Agenda; 11 Appendix E. Workshop Participants; 12 Endnotes
National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Office of International Affairs, Office of International Organizations and Programs and Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, Advisory Committee
National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Policy and Global Affairs, Institute of Medicine, and Public Policy Committee on Science, Engineering
Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, and Cooperation Development, Security, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, Committee on Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies
National Research Council, National Academy of Engineering, Policy and Global Affairs, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Committee on Engineering Education, Committee on Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers, John Sislin, Mary C. Mattis
Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, and Cooperation Development, Security, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russian Facilities
National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, and Economic Policy Board on Science, Technology, Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies, Stephen A. Merrill
National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Committee on Approaches for the Evaluation of the NIST/NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateships Program, John Sislin
National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Committee for Capitalizing on Science, Technology, Charles W. Wessner
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Policy and Global Affairs, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, Planning Committee for the Workshop on Culture Matters: An Approach to International Research Agreements, Joe Alper, Susan Sauer Sloan
National Bureau of Economic Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Policy and Global Affairs, Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, Marie Thursby, Jerry Thursby
and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Policy and Global Affairs, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, and International Research Collaboration in a Changing World Planning Committee for the Workshop on Ethics, Data, Joe Alper, Susan Sauer Sloan
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Policy and Global Affairs, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, Planning Committee for the Workshop on Examining Core Elements of International Collaboration, Tom Arrison, Susan Sauer Sloan
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Policy Division, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and Committee on Global Change Research