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Paying full fees to be involved in FIATECH is too daunting and unreasonable for academics. We are contributing our time and travel budgets and ideas – isn’t this enough? Could an arrangement be made with FIATECH to substitute this for a monetary commitment? If academics are important, they should consider this problem. When you do things for free, people think you’re worthless.
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Motivation – I’d like to have data. As a provider, why should I share my data with others? I’d like evaluation, but that might not be enough. Getting research projects is probably the best motivation – joint projects, industry funding, etc. There are two types of research projects – applied projects and theory-oriented projects. NSF is not interested in application-oriented projects. There are two ways to fund those – FIATECH could collect $ from industry and distribute like NSF, or FIATECH could act as a bridge between industry and academic – make partnerships, host events to make parties aware of opportunities and initiatives. This event was a good example of a way to make academia aware of what industry wants. FIATECH could do both, for that matter – opportunity brokering and direct funding.
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The GOALI program would be a good match with FIATECH. There are lots of academic programs that would fit.
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How much is the research budget for the main contractors and clients that are part of FIATECH? What are the research budgets for people who stand to benefit from FIATECH? Companies jointly fund projects identified through FIATECH at a level dependent on the scope of the project.
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Let’s talk one more time about a vision for continuing this collaboration. What would our mission be?
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We want the roadmap to be a dynamic document. We’re going to want to think about it and continue to improve it. Keep the roadmap fresh.
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From a UK standpoint, we would like to understand how to move this forward. Many of the member companies of FIATECH are international, so there is a reason to participate with them in other countries. This is a positive short-term way to move forward for international participants.
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We want to integrate academic theory and research involvement in the roadmap, which is not presently the case. That’s why we came here.
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Can this group only do this, or are there other ways? ASCE committees? CRC?
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There are many roadmapping efforts in the world. We want to reassert ownership of these more than we have. We also want to establish lobbying ability to approach funders as a community and have a stronger voice.
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Not many roadmaps have been as inclusive as this one.
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