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Center for Science, Technology, and Economic Development (CSTED) > Selected Reports
The Impact on Industry of Interaction with Engineering Research Centers
Appendix C
INTERVIEW GUIDE FOR FOLLOW-UP INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS
- What were the events that surrounded each of the benefits?
- Did you expect these benefits when your company initially sponsored the ERC?
- What benefits, if any, that you anticipated from participating in the ERC have not been fultilled?
- What, if anything, is unique about the ERC's ability to generate these kinds of benefits?
- Which unit or division is responsible for determining your firm's membership in the ERC?
- Which unit or division was the immediate beneficiary of the interaction with the ERC?
- Have you or others in the firm estimated the monetary value of the benefits received from the ERC?
- If yes, obtain estimate/method
- If no, what metrics do you or others use to gauge the value of benefits of the type reported?
- Which units in the firm receive information about the benefits reported from the ERC?
- Have the listed benefits been used in internal firm decisions to justify continued sponsorship of the ERC?
- In what ways, if any, do you think your firm might derive increased benefit from its participation in the ERC?
- What changes, if any, would you recommend in the operation of the ____ ERC to increase the stream of benefits
received by your company?
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