Strategic Management of Research Organizations

William Barletta is Adjunct Professor of Physics at MIT and Director Emeritus of the Accelerator Division at LBNL. Internationally, he is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana and Coordinating Editor-in-Chief of Nuclear Instruments and Methods-A. His present research includes intense neutrino sources, high-energy proton colliders, synchrotron light sources and free electron laser physics. He has edited four books about accelerator science and co-authored four books concerning cyber-security and international cyber-law. He holds four patents about applications of ion beams to nanotechnology and has published more than 180 scientific papers plus 30 reports on strategic technologies. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Bologna Institute in Italy.

1. Perspectives. 2. Measures of the Research Manager. 3. The Research Environment. 4. Strategy, Forecasting and Technological Risk. 5. Introduction to Strategic Planning. 6. Financial Management. 7. The Business Plan. 8. Management Communications Skills. 9. Marketing Scientific Organizations. 10. Research Ethics. 11. Workforce Management. 12. Managing Opertaing Risks. 13. Structures and Governance. 14. Technology-Transfer Case Study. 15. Recommended Resources.