The Research Collaboration Project is the result of
and the continuation of activities initiated under the
EPSCoR Project's Leadership
Development Conferences. Conference topics were
chosen based upon the interests of researchers in the
EPSCoR community. In the event, five of nine conferences
were devoted to aspects of collaborative research. Through
the experience of developing these workshops to meet
the need of science and engineering researchers, RCP
learned that researchers in all disciplines, in institutions
in all states, need and appreciate help in pursuing
inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research.
The need is especially acute among junior faculty members
who may lack a broad network of potential collaborators.
A survey of 412 persons attending one or more of the
five collaboration conferences found that 89 respondents
had participated in 92 collaborative research teams
as a result of their participation. The survey found
that 76 respondents had participated in a collaborative
research proposal resulting from their participation
(27 won, 32 lost and 17 pending as of January 2000).
This project will work to provide further support to
promote and facilitate collaborative research on the
individual and institutional level. A pilot project
for a web-based collaboration brokerage is under consideration. Other projects are in planning
stage. Further information will be posted here as it
becomes available.
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