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"In this book, Michael Crow will ignite a national discussion on what the new American research university should look like. This new model is one that embraces students with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities while giving elite public schools a run for their research money. Crow proposed his idea--one that would fundamentally redesign the public research university--ten years ago when he became president of Arizona State University and now he has a decade of experience to support his plan. Designing the New American University offers a comprehensive critique of the contemporary American research university and spells out how these critically important institutions can reinvent themselves. The manuscript recommends measures to foster institutional evolution across various interrelated dimensions, represented by the model of the New American University--an egalitarian institution committed to academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact. The model is evolutionary and dynamic and its "design aspirations" are interrelated and interdependent. The manuscript thus introduces readers to the imperative significance of institutional design, which is not merely adventitious to knowledge enterprises"--

Characteristics, ownership, funding, administration, and productivity. Some comparisons with Europe, Canada, and Japan.

The research & development (R&D) laboratory system in the US & the effect of market & political factors on R&D activity are examined, based on questionnnaire data from directors of 966 R&D laboratories. An environmental input taxonomy of 3 policy issues central to R&D laboratory activity -- amount of cooperative research, red tape & bureaucratization, & laboratory output -- reveals that cooperative research activities are to a significant extent a function of the mix of economic & political authority imposed in their environments. Public science laboratories have the highest mean number of cooperative agreements, while public technology laboratories, which have the highest level of both market & political external influence, have the lowest number of cooperative agreements. The taxonomy reveals that considerable within-type similarity in mission & composition of technical product exists. 6 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Based on a 1987 survey of 966 laboratories. Identifies nine types of laboratories and examines them in context of cooperative research, red tape and bureaucratization, and laboratory output.