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Appendix E: Examples of Criteria Used to Prioritize or Select
Appendix E: Examples of Criteria Used to Prioritize or Select
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (1) [Criteria for selecting projects for MREFC support, from Rita Colwell's testimony before the House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Research on September 6, 2001]
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[Criteria for selection of projects for future MREFC support, from Answers Provided by NSF to Questions from the House Science Committee Hearing on February 13, 2003] · Significance of the opportunity to enable frontier research and education · Degree of support within relevant S&E communities · Readiness of project, in terms of feasibility, engineering and costeffectiveness, interagency and international partnerships, and management NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (4)
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4664, Section 14A.3, the authorization bill for doubling NSF's budget] · Scientific merit · Broad societal need and probable impact · Consideration of the results of formal prioritization efforts by the scientific community · Readiness of plans for construction and operation · The applicant's management and administrative capacity of large research facilities · International and interagency commitments · The order in which projects were approved by the [National Science]
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· Why are the answers to the questions significant for the national science and technology? · Will the proposed national facilities be made available to outside researchers subject to independent peer reviews?
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International characteristics · Will the proposed national facility encourage international scientific collaboration by attracting researchers from overseas to spend time in the nation? · Could the proposed national facility be located with advantage overseas in partnership with one or more other countries?
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THE NATIONAL RESEARCH PRIORITIES TASKFORCE [Discussion excerpted from a report commissioned by the Australian government, Developing National Research Priorities, 2002] Ultimately, for national priorities to be worthwhile they must have three important characteristics: · An increased research effort must be capable of delivering a measurable and significant positive impact on the objective underlying the priority · Australia must be able to build the capacity needed to achieve that impact · Australia must be able to capture the benefits of that research (either through its commercialization or application)
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DECISION CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH PRIORITIES [Report from Northeastern Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, 1999] Selecting the topics for future research investments in agricultural science requires a rationale that is defensible, and a process that is, for the public sector, completely transparent.
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UK DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH [Prioritization of the Policy Research Programme in collaboration with the R&D Directorate] · Ministerial priority and relevance to the goals, aims and objectives of the Department of Health · Size and importance of the problem to be addressed in terms of actual or potential burden of disease and social condition · Well-defined plans for introducing research results into current policy activity or the formulation of future policy
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· Including foreign partners in project preparation at an early stage, letting them participate in decision making and be responsible for their own scientific or technological contributions are prerequisites. · In order to avoid the duplication of research infrastructures, which would be detrimental to the effective capacity usage of large-scale facilities, there should be no comparable rival projects at the national or European level that are already in the realization phase.
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UK OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [From UK Office of Science and Technology's Large Facilities Strategic Roadmap Report, 2003] [The UK uses a "roadmap" portfolio approach to select projects for solicitation and a Gateway screening process that requires projects to meet certain conditions before moving forward.
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Confirm procurement strategy, project plan, etc. · Readiness for service.
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