NTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH VENTURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR US ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Abstract
The purpose of this projecl is acquire data and develop a basic scientific understanding of the role of joint research ventures between American universities and foreign universities/research institutes. While there are theoretical models of global private sector R&D, very little is understood about the role of American university research partnerships with foreign universities and research institutes in the development of domestic and international R&D capabilities. Whether and how these partnerships interact with political and market dynamics has not been established. This is owing, in part, to a lack of data and understanding of how these partnerships are formed, develop, and if/how they foster technology transfer in the same ways that private sector partnerships do. This project will collect unique data that will form the basis for modeling and theory development. The database will also be made available to other researchers to leverage the potential for further analyses and a basic scientific understanding of the role of American foreign university partnerships in domestic and global R&D enterprise dynamics. The Pl has developed an innovative framework that treats international R&D systems as research communicities and draws on exisiting organizational theories organizational theories on innovative capacities as the result of research exchange networks. This approach treats R&D as an international networked phenomenon, influenced by political. educational. and economic networks with the capability to enable or impede technology transfer, innovation, economic competitiveness, and democratization. The Pl will combine a novel Web scraping methodology with interviews and on-site case studies to develop a systematic theory of R&D internationalization as it occurs through American foreign univcrsity linkages. The Pl will use Carnegie classifications to identify US research universities that engage in high levels of international research activity for the data collection. For the sample of foreign universities, the Pl will draw on the Academic Ranking of World Universities. After creating an initial database of universities and their characterisitics (including research activity), the Pl will visit up to four foreign universities with American pantnerships/collaboration programs for qualitative case studies to better understand the dynamics of these international collaborations. The case studies will lend interpretation to the quantitative rnodels, which will employ employ linear and logistic regression techniques to identify factors that are statistically related to shifts in R&D activity at both the American university and foreign university/institute.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 12, 2017
- Source ID
- W911NF1510322
Entities
People
- Mark A. Taylor
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense