The experimental program to stimulate competitive research / Committee to Evaluate the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and similar Federal Agency programs, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Committee to Evaluate the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and Similar Federal Agency Programs (U.S.), Corporate Author.

Contributor:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee to Evaluate the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, issuing body.

Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.), issuing body.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (National Science Foundation)--Evaluation.

Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (National Science Foundation).

Science--Research grants--United States.

Science.

Engineering--Research grants--United States.

Engineering.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The primary federal program designed to ensure that all states are capable of participating the nation's research enterprise fall under the general rubric of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCOR). The National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration have active EPSCOR programs. Since its inaugural year in 1979, the EPSCOR program has grown from funding programs in five states to awarding funding to 31 states in 2012. The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research assesses the effectiveness of EPSCOR and similar federal agency programs in improving national research capabilities, promoting an equitable distribution of research funding, and integrating their efforts with other initiatives designed to strengthen the nation's research capacity. This report also looks at the effectiveness of EPSCOR states in using awards to develop science engineering research and education, as well a science and engineering infrastructure within their state. The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research makes recommendations for improvement for each agency to create a more focused program with greater impact.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Mission, Evolution, and Context""; ""2 Program Structure and Operation""; ""3 Assessments and Outcomes""; ""4 Findings and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Agency Profiles""; ""Appendix B: State Profiles""; ""Appendix C: Statement of Task and Congressional Mandate""; ""Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 6, 2014).

ISBN:

9780309288316

0309288312

9780309288293

0309288290

OCLC:

923290274