[CANMEDLIB] Primary Research Group Inc. has published Export Controls Compliance Practices Benchmarks for Higher Education, 2022 Edition, ISBN 979-8-88517-002-4

[Jose Mavarez]

Primary Research Group Inc. has published Export Controls Compliance
Practices Benchmarks for Higher Education, 2022 Edition, ISBN
979-8-88517-002-4

This report presents data from 22 internationally ranked research
universities about their export control compliance practices including but
not limited to faculty training, assessment and risk reports. Most
participants are from the USA but the roster includes research institutions
from Canada and Australia as well.

In addition to detailed data on export licenses, the study also furnishes
data on the size of export controls staff, time spent on export controls
issues, incidence of hiring outside attorneys and the precise hourly fees
paid to such attorneys. In significant detail, survey respondents discuss
their response to growing tension between the USA and China and its impact
on their export controls regimen.
Survey respondents evaluate their faculty’s level of awareness of and
degree of comprehension of export control strictures, and comment on their
preparedness and training. Respondents also give their opinion of the
validity of the current efforts by governments in the USA, Canada, the UK
and elsewhere to more tightly control technology exports to China and, to a
lesser extent, Russia. They discuss how much of their research does or does
not fall under the “Fundamental Research exclusion definition in the USA or
similar concepts in other countries.

Data in the report – the third since 2015 -- is broken out by world
university ranking, annual research revenues, enrollment, General field of
research focus, and separately for R1, and R2 and all other universities
(or colleges).

Just a few of this comprehensive 89-page report’s major findings are that:

• 4.55% of those surveyed have withdrawn a scholarship or expelled a
foreign student over failure to disclose a relationship with a foreign
military, university or government organization.
• 50% of respondents from universities where research was
biomedically-oriented felt that policies governing the employment and use
of postdocs and visiting faculty from China and Russia were unclear.
• 27.7% of participants are spending about the same amount of staff time on
export controls as they had three years ago.
• 60% of R2 universities in the sample participated in the Collaborative
Institutional Training Initiative [CITI] export control compliance training.

For a table of contents, list of participating institutions, the
questionnaire and an excerpt visit our website at:
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=682
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