The university research center of the future will function best to serve the rapidly changing public and private demand for services with a highly trained core staff, adequately funded and equipped, whose morale and quality of work performance is a prime consideration. (MSE)

Intense global technological and market competition is reshaping the world economic and political order in ways that have important long-term implications for the organization of research in America's universities. (MSE)

Changes in federal patent policy and the coincident loss of competitiveness and worldwide market shares by American industry have spurred increased interest in university-developed technology and technology transfer programs. (MSE)

Research centers and institutes are one example of how institutional governance has become increasingly disjointed; as the "suburbs" of the university expand, core governance structures lose influence. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)

In a rapidly expanding service environment, governmental entities are looking to campus-based applied research as they seek to modernize and improve public services. Institutions providing this assistance should consider such issues as organizational development, technical competence, econometrics, litigation support, new research opportunities,…

The way universities organize activities related to economic development, such as continuing education and technology transfer, will both determine and reflect fundamental shifts in university organizational structure and radical redefinition of the university's role. The more successfully the university performs these non-core, nontraditional…

As America's businesses restructure and streamline operations to meet new foreign and domestic challenges, colleges and universities are offering help in the form of flexible informational, technical, and instructional services. An effective and sustained relationship between industry and institution requires cooperation and a balance of the…

Computerization, a new mood of interinstitutional cooperation, and the emerging triad of university, business, and government will create major changes in what universities will have to manage and in how they will manage it. Universities must begin to plan now for the substantial changes brought by cooperative research programs. (MSE)