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Administrative Staff Questionnaire

Each university/industry cooperative center represents a unique organizational design. In order to understand better the overall Center program, we would like to know about some of the incentives, structures, and decision processes, which operate in your center. Questions 1 to 4 deal with these dimensions of structure and process.

During the past year how did you allocate your time among the following functions (please give percentages of total time in each category)?

Overall technical direction	_______%
Management and administration of center	_______%
Management of individual research projects	_______%
Marketing of your center to potential industrial sponsors	_______%
Administrative liaison with industrial sponsors	_______%
Other university-related duties	_______%
Other activities	_______%
	100 %

During the past year approximately how many people at the University have requested information about specific activities or projects of the Center?

3a. Approximately what percentage of these information requests can be classified as technical in nature?

3b. Approximately what percentage concerns administrative or operational issues?

Approximately what are the total funds allocated to the Center this year?	$
How much of these funds are from NSF?
From Company sponsors?
From the University?

A primary concern of this assessment is the various results and benefits that have accrued to your university and to the companies from participation in the Center. Please be as objective as possible, since in the long run it will be to the Center’s advantage to fully understand its strengths and limitations. The remainder of this questionnaire focuses on outcomes, results, and potential benefits.

During the past year how satisfied were you with the following features of the Center?

	Completely Satisfied	A great deal Satisfied	Somewhat Satisfied	Not at all Satisfied
Technical quality of the research	_________	__________	_________	________
Communication between Center staff And industrial participants	_________	__________	_________	________
Center administrative practices	_________	__________	_________	________
Responsiveness of the Center To industry needs	_________	__________	_________	________

In your view how satisfied was industry with the following features of the Center?

	Completely Satisfied	A great deal Satisfied	Somewhat Satisfied	Not at all Satisfied
Technical quality of the research	_________	__________	_________	________
Communication between Center staff And industrial participants	_________	__________	_________	________
Center administrative practices	_________	__________	_________	________
Responsiveness of the Center To industry needs	_________	__________	_________	________

How important to you are the following goals and outcomes of the Center?

	Extremely Important	Considerably Important	Somewhat Important	Not at All Important
General expansion of knowledge In this technical area	___________	___________	__________	_________
Enhancement of graduate Student technical training	___________	___________	__________	_________

Enhancement of graduate Students’ understanding of industry	___________	___________	__________	_________

Redirection of university research toward industrial problems	___________	___________	__________	_________

Enhancement of quality of Industrial research	___________	___________	__________	_________

Development of new Company research projects	___________	___________	__________	_________

Development of patentable Products	___________	___________	__________	_________

Development of commercialized Products	___________	___________	__________	_________

How likely is it that the university will realize tangible benefits in the following areas as a result of participation in this Center?

	Almost Certain	Pretty Likely	Somewhat Likely	Scarcely Likely
Improved knowledge base	________	________	________	________

Better student recruitment	________	________	________	________

Better student placement	________	________	________	________

Better faculty recruitment	________	________	________	________

Improved research projects in the university	________	________	________	________

Increased funds for research from public sources	________	________	________	________

Increased funds for research from private sources	________	________	________	________

Increased university patent activity	________	________	________	________

To what extent is the research conducted at the Center different from research projects typically conducted by faculty associated with the Center?

	A Lot	Some	A Little	Hardly Any
Research topics and issues	_________	________	________	________

Research methods and procedures used	_________	________	________	________

Criteria and methods used to evaluate research projects	_________	________	________	________

Specifically, in what ways has the Center program affected the nature of faculty research?

In your opinion, has the Center had any effect on the following specific outcomes in sponsoring firms during the last year?

	No Effect	Moderate Effect	Significant Effect	Not Applicable
Improvements in products and services	______	________	________	________

Changes in warranty and complaints in view of improvements in products	______	________	________	________

New products developed to related efforts	______	________	________	________

Changes in cost of products to users (price changes or decreased product maintenance)	______	________	________	________

Reduction of production costs	______	________	________	________

Improvements in processes and methods of production	______	________	________	________

Increased uniformity of products	______	________	________	________

Improved product or design	______	________	________	________

Improved capability to deal with government regulations	______	________	________	________

Improved capability to cooperate with outside scientists	______	________	________	________

Please make any additional comments you wish.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!

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