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2020 | Buch

The Funding of Academic Research in the U.S. Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

America's Leaning Ivory Tower

The Measurement of and Response to Concentration of Federal Funding for Academic Research

verfasst von: Prof. Yonghong Wu

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : SpringerBriefs in Political Science

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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This book will expand the body of literature on capacity-building in science and improve public understanding of the issues regarding geographical concentration of federal research funding. The federal government has been the primary sponsor of academic research in the U.S., and the peer-review system has been the primary mechanism for distributing federal government funding for research among universities. The peer-review system ensures the production of the best science by funding the most capable researchers in the country. As a result, federal research funding has been concentrated in high-capacity states where many of the most capable researchers reside. Despite official action - such as the implementation of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which targets low capacity jurisdictions for federal funding - the amount of resources going to each state for research is highly uneven. This book provides recommendations on how to improve policy design and program implementation for better research capacity-building outcomes. The book lends itself to a wide audience, as it does not focus entirely on high-level statistical analysis, but will have specific appeal to researchers in science policy, federal budgeting and higher education policy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. The Funding of Academic Research in the U.S.
Abstract
This chapter presents the broad context of government funding of academic research in the U.S. It illustrates substantial disparities in federal funding for academic research across states. The chapter also briefly discusses why this has become a public policy issue and how federal government has responded.
Yonghong Wu
Chapter 2. Geographical Concentration of Funding of Academic Research
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the measurement of geographic concentration of federal funding for academic research. Besides conventional descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation, a concentration index is introduced to describe the extent of concentration of academic research funding from several federal agencies. The chapter also discusses the underlying causes and major ramifications of geographic concentration of federal funding for academic research.
Yonghong Wu
Chapter 3. Public Policy Response to Concentration of Academic Research
Abstract
This chapter describes federal government response to the uneven distribution of federal academic research funding. It briefly reviews the history of federal EPSCoR programs, and describes evolving policy goals and programmatic features of the programs and capacity-building activities in the eligible states. The chapter also develops an evaluative framework of research capacity and competitiveness as a conceptual guide to the subsequent multi-level assessment of EPSCoR effects on research capacity at the individual level and research competitiveness at the state level.
Yonghong Wu
Chapter 4. Assessment of Scientists’ Research Capacity
Abstract
After an empirical test of the evaluative framework developed in Chap. 3, this chapter assesses EPSCoR efforts in builiding scientists' research capacity by comparing the mean values of the four key determinants of individual research capacity between scientists in EPSCoR states and those in other states. The results suggest that individual scientists in EPSCoR states do not show significant weakness in research talent, collaboration, and motivation, and they seem to perform equally well in grant-seeking as their counterparts in non-EPSCoR states. However, the results also reveal important frustrations among scientists in EPSCoR states with their institutional environment.
Yonghong Wu
Chapter 5. Multi-level Assessment on EPSCoR
Abstract
This chapter provides a comprehensive assessment on the effectiveness of EPSCoR programs beyond the individual level. The macro-level assessment shows that the two largest EPSCoR programs—NSF's EPSCoR and NIH's IDeA—have been effective in reducing the concentration index of the respective agency support to academic research, but the magnitude of the effects is small. Additional state-level assessments present quite modest effects of NSF's EPSCoR and NIH's IDeA on a state's shares of NSF and NIH funding for academic research, respectively. Supplemental analysis suggests that the effects of EPSCoR vary across the eligible states.
Yonghong Wu
Chapter 6. EPSCoR Programs and Research Facilities
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the construction and utilization of research facilities in higher education institutions. It develops a measure of research density by comparing the academic R&D expenditures within a state with the size of its academic research facilities. The analysis indicates that EPSCoR institutions have likely over-invested in physical research infrastructure and do not utilize research facilities as efficiently as their counterparts in non-EPSCoR states. The empirical evidence also shows that EPSCoR state governments do not invest significantly more funds in academic research facilities than non-EPSCoR states.
Yonghong Wu
Chapter 7. The Future of EPSCoR
Abstract
This chapter describes evolving political support for EPSCoR. It also provides a synthesis of the analyses and a discussion of the implications for the future of EPSCoR and similar efforts to address the concentration of federal funding for academic research. Based on the empirical evidence, the book calls for a shift in EPSCoR strategy from research collaboration and infrastructure improvement to innovating and improving institutional environment that helps recruitment, retention, and motivation of S&E research talents.
Yonghong Wu
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
America's Leaning Ivory Tower
verfasst von
Prof. Yonghong Wu
Copyright-Jahr
2020
Electronic ISBN
978-3-030-18704-0
Print ISBN
978-3-030-18703-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18704-0

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