The Research Driven University

Trends, tensions, and opportunities Research universities are the $90-billion heart of America’s vast, vigorous R&D enterprise. Learn how your institution can benefit from and contribute to tomorrow’s revolutionary innovations.Readers of this report will better understand the scope of the American academic-research enterprise, the immense intellectual passion and imagination of university research scholars, the values that guide them, and the ways in which institutions can best strategize to align their research endeavors with their missions. Learn about: Universities’ balancing of basic and applied research; where support for that work comes from; and who is performing it. Tensions between the United States and China that threaten decades of research collaboration. Opportunities within the Chips and Science Act. Imminent changes in top Carnegie research classifications and the clout of the rarefied Association of American Universities. The types of research partnerships univer