Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research: A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309379489)

Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and fundamental discoveries that enhance our lives and the lives of others around the world. These institutions help to create an educated citizenry capable of making informed and crucial choices as participants in a democratic society. However many are concerned that the unintended cumulative effect of federal regulations undercuts the productivity of the research enterprise and diminishes the return on the federal investment in research.

Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research reviews the regulatory framework as it currently exists, considers specific regulations that have placed undue and often unanticipated burdens on the research enterprise, and reassesses the process by which these regulations are created, reviewed, and retired. This review is critical to strengthen the partnership between the federal government and research institutions, to maximize the creation of new knowledge and products, to provide for the effective training and education of the next generation of scholars and workers, and to optimize the return on the federal investment in research for the benefit of the American people.

Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineeri, Policy and Global Affairs, Board on Higher Education and Workforce
ISBN-10: 0309379482
ISBN-13: 9780309379489
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2016
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d