Ethical and Value Issues in Research Centers
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The creation of university research centers to encourage collaboration          among academe, industry and government in the conduct of science and            technology is a relatively new phenomenon in this country.  The aim of          this project is to explore what happens to the values of these three            sectors when they come together in these settings.  This effort itself          is a collaboration between four scholars from the disciplines of                philosophy, political science and sociology.  They will use their               disciplinary perspectives and methods, including normative,                     organizational, structural and ethnographic analysis, in an intensive,          on-site examination of the negotiation of values, including concerns            for professional success, control, and management, in two research              centers located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Center for             Manufacturing Productivity and Technology Transfer and the Center for           Composite Materials and Structures.  A four-member board incorporating          business, government, and public interest perspectives, will advise the         project; and the study will be augmented by an exchange of ideas and            data with an investigation of other university-industry interactions            currently underway in RPI's Center for Science and Technology Policy.           Results will be disseminated in articles for disciplinary and                   interdisciplinary journals.  Special mailings of "Working Papers" will          be made to administrators and policymakers, and the findings should             also be appropriate for sessions at meetings of the American                    Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Social           Studies of Science.  Involvement at the centers should also lead to             channels of publication to audiences interested in the centers'                 activities.                                                                                                                                                     This project can make a unique contribution to the development,                 application, and evaluation of collaborative research agendas and               methods in science and technology studies.  It will also provide the            first intensive, longitudinal examination of the processes and products         of negotiating values in these new institutional settings.  The                 investigators are exceptionally well qualified; graduate students are           involved; institutional support and cooperation is excellent.  The use          of an advisory board and interaction with another related investigation         will help to assure broader relevance and balance.  This is a good              example of the kind of cross-disciplinary research EVS should                   encourage.                                                                                                                                                      Results are likely to be useful and widely disseminated.  Costs are             reasonable.  Total support in the amount of $164,374 is recommended, of         which $96,000 is awarded now, from the Directorate for Engineering and          the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
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