What goes on in the scientific networks and the research teams? What is the collaborative
situation like? Why do scientists collaborate? This study focuses on the micro level of …

Contending that collaboration management practices and interpersonal relationships are
the main factors in successful collaboration in R&D, scholars have turned their attention to …

Experimental research has become a collective enterprise that closely intertwines creative
and routine processes. So far, these basic properties of research-the classic property …

Despite the growing importance of collaboration in research there have been very few
investigations of the practice of research collaboration itself. The study we report …

Although there have been many previous studies of research collaboration, comparatively
little attention has been given to the concept of 'collaboration'or to the adequacy of …

The scant literature on individual scientists collaboration dynamics is used to develop a
provisional model of research collaboration effectiveness. It incorporates external …

This paper addresses a crucial question: Which factors explain the choices of institutional
structures made by university researchers? The main findings of the study point to the …

This paper addresses four questions: What is the extent of the collaboration between the
natural sciences and engineering researchers in Canadian universities and government …

This conceptual paper explores three areas of research collaboration:(a) effectively
harnessing differences,(b) setting defensible boundaries and (c) gaining legitimate …

The commercialisation of scientific knowledge has become a primary objective for
universities worldwide. Collaborative research projects are viewed as the key to achieving …