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Effective Management of the Investments in Research Infrastructure
Pages 16-17

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... EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE INVESTMENTS IN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE Workshop participants discussed the longer-term issues of how to improve the management of all investments of research infrastructure in the behavioral and social sciences. They noted the increase in behavioral and social science infrastructure in the private sector, especially private opinion and marketing surveys.
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... The responsibilities of this proposed advisory process could include (see Fischhoff, -- identifying the evolving new research opportunities in the behavioral and social sciences, -- assessing the appropriateness of current infrastructure in the behavioral and social sciences for addressing those opportunities, that is, the pattern of infrastructure investments rather than the evaluation of specific projects; . -- proposing new kinds of research infrastructure that might be needed to address the identified new opportunities, and -- proposing improvements in the way allocation decisions are made, using the methods from statistical decision theory, economics, operations research, and management science for thinking about the importance of different research activities and how to choose among them.
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