The Journal of Research Administration 2001: Vol 2 Table of Contents

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Volume Il, Number |, 2001
In This Issue
Contributors
Features
Priorities for Federal Innovation Reform: A SRA Perspective
By Lynne Chronister, Elliott Kulakowski, PhD and Tori Molfese, PhD
This article is in response to the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) request
for federal policy reforms to enhance innovation. SRA identifies several specific priority areas
for reform and the Society’s rationale for these recommendations.
Faculty Time and Effort: Analysis for Research Development
By Imeh D. Ebong, PhD
This article uses the concepts of capacity and consistency ratios as the means for planning and
utilizing faculty capability for research and sponsored project development. Analysis of typical
institutional data reveals how an understanding and use of these concepts can provide the
research administrator with useful insights into the cost implications of faculty time and effort
distributions.
Grant Performance of Junior Faculty Across Disciplines:
Motivators and Barriers
By Patricia G. Boyer, PhD and Irv Cockriel, EdD
This work evaluates factors that influence junior faculty in the pursuit of grants across disci-
plines at a research university. Results suggest that junior faculty who acquire some grant
training as a part of their doctoral or postdoctoral program still require some faculty develop-
ment in the grant process.
Case Study
Appropriate Billing of Human Subject Research Charges
By Rosemary Biscardi
This case study reviews a system established at the Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in
Columbia, South Carolina, to properly identify and bill the appropriate entity for charges
incurred solely for the collection of research data.
Going Beyond Z: The Challenge Grant — Joint Ventures in
Biomedical and Biotechnology Program
By Annette Hanopole, CRA
This case study examines a new initiative intended to promote joint ventures between the
National Institutes of Health (NTH) and the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical
device industries.
Review
Academic Capitalism. Politics, Policies and the Entrepreneurial University
By Myriam A. Bouroche
The author summarizes this work which examines the changes in the source and allocation of
funding faced by public research universities within four large English-speaking countries
(Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States).
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