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Research Restructuring and Assessment Can We Apply the Corporate Experience to Government Agencies? (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... of the National Science Foundation (NSF) , for example, should not require six to nine months to review and fund proposals, or to decide that it is unable to provide continuity in funding to a scientist who has submitted a "renewal" proposal on time.
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... Thus, in this workshop we have brought together individuals from corporations who have addressed in some manner the issue of performance evaluation of their research organizations, and who also have been involved in restructuring their research portfolios in response to reductions in the amount of available funding; individuals from the academic world of the physical and mathematical sciences who are now addressing a restructuring of their research portfolios in response to reduced government and private funding; and NSF colleagues and other government officials. Although the perspective of the measures used by corporations is only one of many that the National Science Foundation will have to consider, their experience will help the institution to focus on workable models and methods.
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