CAPITALIZING ON A REGIONAL RESEARCH PORTAL TO TRANSFORM U.S. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

摘要

In order for the United States to compete in the global economy as a technology leader, the stakeholders must transform our research and development (R&D) system. In some ways, our current R&D system can be thought of as the familiar multisided, multicolored Rubik's Cube~R. While the numerous pieces can be turned and twisted, the base colors remain represented by federal, private, academic R&D; private-public partnerships; the educational system; and the disruptive unknown unknown. For us today, the problem is that all of the colors on each side completely match when each side should be completely integrated. This paper recommends the transformation of the current U.S. R&D system into an integrated national research infrastructure designed to make the federal research capability more accessible to the private sector. In order to scale the proposed transformation, the integration of the federal R&D system can begin through a prototypical Southeast regional portal.