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II. The Mission and Characteristics of NSF-Funded Science and Technology Centers
II. The Mission and Characteristics of NSF-Funded Science and Technology Centers
Pages 9-14
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Centers are on a scale between the single investigator or a small group of investigators and large national facilities such as the National Center for Atmospheric Research or the national laboratories. Centers contribute to science by enabling researchers to accomplish challenging, longer term projects that they could not undertake at all or as efficiently as individual investigators because of the need for stable support, large facilities or support teams, or simply the need to bring together diverse experiences and expertise.
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Instead, the scientific community should define the range of research goals through the quality of the proposals it generates for Science and Technology Centers. The panel points out that in recent years there have been a range of reports in which the scientific community described potentially explosive advances in many fields and subfields of science; for example, the research briefings by the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and the disciplinary surveys in chemistry, physics, and other fields by the National Research Council.
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In some cases, centers will introduce students to large-scale collaborative ventures that characterize some industrial research organizations. The instructional mission of centers need not be limited to full-time students and postdoctoral fellows.
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The panel anticipates and encourages wide variation in the design of center proposals, limited only by the imagination of the scientific community. Possible models for Science and Technology Centers include: o Centers organized around!
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The most effective way to transfer knowledge generated by research is through direct intellectual exchanges -- seminars, conferences, visitor programs, and exchange visits. Knowledge transfer is a "body contact sport." Such activities must be commensurate with the size of the center and appropriate to its research theme.
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Opportunities for continuing intellectual exchanges that acquaint academic researchers with practical problems and convey new knowledge and techniques to researchers elsewhere in the public and private sectors are more important than financial support.
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