Space Allocation Guidelines

     
January 29, 2003  

The purpose of the Biosystems Research Complex is to serve as a key high-technology facility to attract biologically-based industries to South Carolina, and to spawn entrepreneurial growth companies.  The facility will house collaborative research programs conducted by investigators from multiple disciplines. 

1.   Space will be allocated on the basis of the alignment of the investigator's research focus area with the goals of the complex.  Preference will be given to collaborative teams of investigators or research centers with proven track records.

2.  The investigator must be willing to collaborate in a team effort focused on common program objectives.

3.  Newly-hired junior faculty must have a high potential for and be willing and eager to establish relationships with and secure funding from both public and private funding agencies. Senior faculty must have a proven track record by having obtained significant (relative to "Top 20" benchmark peers in the discipline) sums of extramurally funded research in the building's mission area.

4.  Investigative teams must achieve nationally and internationally recognized  biologically-based research outcomes as measured by criteria such as total amount of research awards/expenditures, intellectual property developed, national impact of research outcomes, entrepreneurial growth companies formed, service on peer review panels, quality of graduate students, development of key private sector relationships, and publishing in prestigious journals.

5.  Building space assignments will be reviewed on a three-year cycle and evaluated for continuation based on the objective measures of outcomes defined under item 4.

6.  Building assignments, allocation of space and determination of the duration of occupancy will be made by the Administrator of the Biosystems Research Complex, in consultation with the Deans of the College of Engineering and Science and the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences.

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