Federal Panel Seeks Comment
on Various Issues Related to Cost and Accountability in Federally-Sponsored
Research
August 15, 2003 - The Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP) Aug. 5 published in the Federal Register
[68 FR 46631] a notice
seeking comments from the "research performer community"
on various issues the National Science and Technology Council
Subcommittee on Research Business Models has identified as
possibly affecting the cost and accountability of federally-funded
research.
Among the broad questions and issues the research community
is asked to address are:
- What constitutes accountability for the Federally-supported
research enterprise?
- How can performers best demonstrate results or return
on Federal research investments?
- Can you identify specific Federal policies and practices
that if simplified would improve the efficiency and cost
effectiveness of the research enterprise?
- Can you identify specific university policies and practices
that if simplified would improve the efficiency and cost
effectiveness of the research enterprise?
- Is there a more efficient approach to meeting the intent
of the current suite of administrative requirements and
regulations?
- How can public funding mechanisms and policies encourage
or discourage innovative approaches to research?
- How do support mechanisms influence the mix of investigators
supported (e.g., principal investigators, research scientists,
postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, or technicians)?
- What factors influence performers' investments in research
infrastructure?
The National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee
on Research Business Models is charged with facilitating a
"coordinated effort across federal agencies to identify
and address important policy implications arising from the
changing nature of basic and applied research" and to
"examine the concomitant influence these changes have
had or should have on business models and business practices
for the conduct of basic and applied research sponsored by
the Federal government…" The membership of the Subcommittee
includes representatives from fifteen Federal departments
and agencies that support or are engaged in research activities.
Information:
Tony Mazzaschi, Senior Associate Vice President
AAMC Biomedical Health Sciences Research
tmazzaschi@aamc.org
(202) 828-0059
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