Universities should make use of available technology to streamline administration tasks for researchers, saving trillions of dollars and leaving more time for scientists to make important breakthroughs. The report also calls on the government to increase funding for basic research by $45 billion over five years, with a focus on areas such as cancer research, climate change science, energy efficiency and clean energy.
Universities should make use of available technology to streamline administration tasks for researchers, saving trillions of dollars and leaving more time for scientists to make important breakthroughs. Digital technology could be used to better match the almost half a million incoming graduate students with research positions, find more sophisticated ways of sharing data, track inventory and manage procurement, in a combined effort to reduce costs and administrative workload.