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Preface
Executive Summary
A. The EPSCoR Program
and Its Evaluation
1. What Is the EPSCoR
Program?
2. What Is the EPSCoR Evaluation?
3. What Were the Evaluation’s Main
Conclusions? (A Preview)
B. Evaluation Findings
4. What Was EPSCoR’s
Funding Practice?
5. Was EPSCoR Associated with Changes
in Academic R&D Funding?
6. To What Extent Did EPSCoR Influence
University-Government-Industry Relationships, University Research
Infrastructures, and Research Competitiveness?
C. Policy and Program
Implications
7. What Are the Evaluation’s
Implications for EPSCoR Policy and Program Operations?
Exhibits
1. Hypothesized
Program Events in EPSCoR States
2. Percent Share of Academic
R&D Expenditures, by Sector
3. Shares of Federal
Obligations for Academic Research, by Agency
4. EPSCoR States’ Share
of Federal Academic R&D Expenditures
5. EPSCoR States’ Share
of NSF Obligations
6. Percentage Changes
in Federal Academic R&D, by Individual EPSCoR States, 1980-1984
7. Scientific Publications,
by Cluster
8. Distribution of New
Award Dollars, by Cluster
References
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