Once upon a time, it was the lone scientist who achieved brilliant
breakthroughs. No longer. Today, science is done in teams of as many
as hundreds of researchers who may be scattered across continents and
represent a range of hierarchies. These collaborations can be
powerful, but they demand new ways of thinking about scientific
research. When three hundred people make a discovery, who gets credit?
How can all collaborators’ concerns be adequately addressed? Why do
certain STEM collaborations succeed while others fail? Focusing on the
nascent science of team science,The Strength in Numbers synthesizes
the results of the most far-reaching study to date on collaboration
among university scientists to provide answers to such questions.
Drawing on a national survey with responses from researchers at more
than one hundred universities, anonymous web posts, archival data, and
extensive interviews with active scientists and engineers in over a
dozen STEM disciplines, Barry Bozeman and Jan Youtie set out a
framework to characterize different types of collaboration and their
likely outcomes. They also develop a model to define research
effectiveness, which assesses factors internal and external to
collaborations. They advance what they have found to be the gold
standard of science collaborations: consultative collaboration
management. This strategy—which codifies methods of consulting all
team members on a study’s key points and incorporates their
preferences and values—empowers managers of STEM collaborations to
optimize the likelihood of their effectiveness. The Strength in
Numbers is a milestone in the science of team science and an
indispensable guide for scientists interested in maximizing
collaborative success.
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ISBN
9781400888610
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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