However, it must be emphasised that this idea was largely foreign to many of the participants, and it was at times difficult to establish clear boundaries for when research was actually considered to be "for profit".
This booklet outlines some of the areas of focus for China as it pushes the boundaries of research and treatment.
The City of Vancouver was selected as the geographical boundary for the research.
The EVPI for the base case resulted in €398,063, providing the upper boundary for investing research funds in further clinical trials to obtain perfect information on the cost-effectiveness of PREP versus UC.
The goal of the federation is to promote interoperability of systems across institutional boundaries for faculty, researchers, staff, and students in the US research and education sphere.
"ADS-B technology in itself crosses a lot of boundaries for us," says Charles Keegan, associate administrator for research and acquisitions at the FAA.
The specific application of the developed method on agricultural development in Belgium, has revealed the need for crossing system boundaries within research, articulation of definitions on sustainable development, development of a coherent sustainability labelling policy and increasing the access to nation wide data both for researchers and policy makers.
This does generate specialism and service delivery boundary issues, but tackling these is important for research as they reflect service delivery issues in the clinical setting.
Focus groups were appropriate as they allowed patients themselves to set the boundaries of what they perceived to be legitimate avenues for research.
Managers for boundary-spanning research activities need to combine the sometimes opposing logics and perspectives of the multiple stakeholders the individual researchers searching for independence, sustainability and freedom and others searching for integration, relevance and predictability.
