title: A framework for managing core facilities within the research enterprise.
abstract: Core facilities represent increasingly important operational and strategic components of institutions' research enterprises, especially in biomolecular science and engineering disciplines. With this realization, many research institutions are placing more attention on effectively managing core facilities within the research enterprise. A framework is presented for organizing the questions, challenges, and opportunities facing core facilities and the academic units and institutions in which they operate. This framework is intended to assist in guiding core facility management discussions in the context of a portfolio of facilities and within the overall institutional research enterprise.
authors.affiliation: Huron Consulting Group, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, USA. rhaley@huronconsultinggroup.com
authors.forename: Rand
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haley
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003657:Decision Making; D004526:Efficiency; D005380:Financing, Government; D007449:Investments / Q000458:organization & administration; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014495:Universities / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration