Research Collaboration Blog

As social media becomes ubiquitous, they increasingly are the center of research attention. “The power of social media is turning old models on their heads,” says Fraser, coauthor along with Dutta of Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World (Wiley, 2008, ISBN:0470740140 ). “In the Web [...]

Were you in Washington D.C for the Presidential inauguration? Did you upload your photographs to CNN.com? If you did, you may have contributed to the breathtaking 3D photograph of President Obama taking the oath of office. CNN created this image by using PhotoSynth to combine thousands of photographs that were uploaded by the [...]

Research and development in developing countries has lagged far behind those of developed countries. In sub-Saharan Africa and much of South East Asia, government spending has focused on more critical priorities such as healthcare and basic education, and sadly, often on military spending. In many of these countries also, the infrastructure needed for advanced research [...]

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, [...]

R&D is the lifeblood of companies by way of generating new products and services. As 2008 comes to close, we are entering an unprecedented global recession, the extent of which has not yet been fully revealed. Across virtually all industries and regions of the world, the effects of this recession are being felt more deeply [...]