As promised in an earlier post, I now have the capability to add a standardized metropolitan-region field to any entry in my tbed database.
Consequently, I’ve spent a few hours a week for the last several months
revisiting my roughly 1,700 entries, adding, dropping, and revising as
necessary to account for the ebb and flow of state and federal
programming.
One of the categories I try and track is “national centers,” a broad rubric under which I’ve included major university-based, tbed-oriented research centers sponsored by federal agencies such as NSF, DOE, NASA, parts of DOD, and NIH. There you can sample a dense acronym soup: ERCs, MRSECs, STCs, NSECs, CTSAs, and so on. In the course of my data validation, I made some new observations about one particular acronym: I/U CRCs, the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers program of the National Science Foundation.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Revisiting the NSF I/U CRC program: some recent insights
