As part of its annual Work-Life Conference this year, The Conference Board (http://www.conference-board.org/) and Families and Work Institute (http://www.familiesandwork.org/) focus on innovation and collaboration for change. Here are some of the highlights. Leading experts will share what’s new in work life, present cutting–edge technologies (including gaming technology and social media) and discuss the latest [...]
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A recent posting on DrugMonkey discussed the topic of relationships within research groups, particularly among researchers that are more senior, postdocs and other students. http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/2009/02/repost_independence.php. The question revolved around the increase in the number of major grant proposals submitted by postdocs. Is this a positive or negative trend? The positive side is that more recently [...]
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On January 8th 2009 the University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University announced an agreement to increase their current academic and research collaborations. Part of the proposals announced in Beijing include developing a conference on undergraduate education to discuss best practices and skills development and identifying a major research collaboration spearheaded by Penn’s School of Engineering [...]
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As I read about the many collaborative research efforts announced daily, I wonder how the projects actually work after the announcement. For example, “The first joint institution for research and research training in areas of mutual importance to India and Australia has been established between the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, or IITB, and Monash [...]
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Firms that conduct research involving multiple researchers collaborate using different approaches. At one end of the scale, many smaller companies exchange research documents via email attachments, while at take other end, firms use expensive, sophisticated custom-built software to manage large-scale research projects that may span multiple countries.
Research via email attachments may be the cheapest option, [...]