Industry Support for Academic Research Fell for a 3rd Straight Year in 2004

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Industry Support for Academic Research Fell for a 3rd Straight 
Year in 2004

By ANNE K. WALTERS
Chronicle of Higher Education Tuesday May 2

*  INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH in science and
    engineering fell for the third straight year in the 2004
    fiscal year, according to a new report from the National
    Science Foundation. Overall research-and-development spending
    at colleges increased by 7.2 percent, which represents a
    slowdown from double-digit growth in the previous two years.

The report, "Industrial Funding of Academic R&D Continues to 
Decline in FY 2004," 
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf06315/ uses data from 
the National Science Foundation Survey of Research and 
Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges to analyze 
sources for money for research at colleges, the fields that are 
the top recipients of research dollars, and the institutions that 
receive the most research money. Figures from 2004 are the most 
recent reported to the agency.

According to the survey, industry's support of academic research 
in science and engineering fell by 2.6 percent in 2004, after 
declining by 1.1 percent in 2003 and 1.5 percent in 2002. 
Industry support was $2.1-billion in 2004, down from a high of 
$2.2-billion in 2001.

http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006050201n.htm (link to article for
subscribers)

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825