# Presentation: 158492

## PRINCIPLES OF PARTNERSHIP:  Assistance and Procurement; Intramural or Extramural

- Regional Forum on Research Business Models
- Forum Focus:  Appropriate Costs of Research Enterprise
- Dr. Susan Braunhut, Dr. Donald Cotten, and
-  Mr. Christopher McCrudden
- 17 November 2003

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**The Status of the Research Partnership:**
**Faculty Perspective**
**Dr. Susan Braunhut**

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## The Status of the Research Partnership-Faculty Perspective 

- Is there an impact of changes in recovery on research and science ?
- Is there an impact of changes in accountability on research and science ?
- Are there obstacles to success in the current system and to evolving new ways of conducting research ?

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## The Status of the Research Partnership-Faculty Perspective

- Is there an impact of changes in recovery on research and science ?
- Cost sharing ?
- Inconsistent policies and practices among federal agencies ?
- Administrative cap, salary cap, caps on stipends and tuition costs ?
- 	Other ?

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## The Status of the Research Partnership-Faculty Perspective

- Is there an impact of changes in accountability on research and science ?
- Can research outcomes be measured
-     accurately using an existing business model ?
- Is funding of research a procurement or a investment activity ?
- Other ?

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## The Status of the Research Partnership-Faculty Perspective

- Information technology and new science areas, i.e. bioinformatics and nanotechnology, are driving interdisciplinary approaches in research.  What are current and emerging barriers to interdisciplinary research ?
- Specific agency missions ?
- Multiple agency audit requirements ?
- Sub recipient monitoring ?
- Internal University organization and culture ?
- Other ?

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**An Administrative Perspective from the EPSCoR Community**
**	****	****	****Mr. Donald Cotten**

## Perspective from the EPSCoR Community

**Presence of Intellectual Capital **
**Strategically Positioned**
**Significant Role to Play in  National Agenda**

## Challenges

*** *****Accessibility**
** ****Sustainability**
** ****The Human Dimension**

## Questions

**Does One Size Fit All?**
**Do we have a Shared Commitment?**

## Partnerships and Collaborations

**Enhance Connections Between Research and National Goals**
**Stimulate and Promote Partnerships**

## Paradigm  Shift

**Competition**
**Individual**
**Strategic Units**
**Performance Driven**
**Resource Limitations**
**Government as Customer**

**Collaboration**
**Partnering**
**Networks**
**Market Driven**
**Cost Sharing**
**Government as Partner**

-          **Past**** ****                                     ****Future**

## Critical Success Factors

**Cost-effective Operations**
**Competitive Opportunities**
**Participation and Recognition**
**Major Investments**

## Recommendations

**Support Quality & Competition**
**Invest in Our Future**
**Promote and Support Partnerships**
**Expand Economic Opportunity**

## Assessing the State of the Partnership

**Mr. Christopher McCrudden**

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## Assessing the State of the Partnership

- Are we a partnership?
- Is there a mutual objective?
- What is being provided by the respective parties?

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## Assessing the State of the Partnership

- Are the risks and rewards balanced?
- How has the partnership evolved?
- What has happened to the partnership lately?

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## Assessing the State of the Partnership

- Do regulations imply policy or are we dealing with unintended consequences?
- Does the government wish to put junior faculty at a competitive disadvantage?
- Does the government wish to discourage modern systems in support of research?
- Does the government wish to discourage institutional investment in facilities?

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## Assessing the State of the Partnership

- Does the government not care about universities seeking the lowest cost solution?
- Does the government wish to see a concentration of certain types of research?

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## Assessing the State of the Partnership

- Wither the Partnership?

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