Recent studies on collaboration (especially collaborative arrangements involving interaction with industrial science) confirm the importance of collaboration in generating scientific and technological outputs, and suggest that such collaboration is capable of providing both individuals and organizations with benefits outweighing its costs (Rigby and Edler 2005).
The arguments to engage in collaboration seem inevitable for the Greenlandic business community, as collaborative arrangements are an attempt to overcome liability of smallness and increase commercialization (Bøllingtoft et al., 2012).
This is an important reminder that collaborations are not only 'horizontal' arrangements between established specialists but also involve vertical collaborative arrangements between established and more junior scientists (c.f. Leahey and Reikowsky 2008, p.435).
Staff and users of services should be involved in designing and delivering collaborative arrangements and should themselves be beneficiaries.
We have a reciprocal arrangement with Harvard Business School's Career Services, and other collaborative arrangements with schools such as Columbia, Yale, University of Chicago.
The research group has set up collaborative arrangements with the Mexican factories, known as maquiladoras where they will be able to test their new robots.
That only served to validate the fears of some that with the proliferation of these sorts of collaborative arrangements, news will not only become further homogenized, but also increasingly vulnerable to error.
In a report on China, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the higher education standards watchdog, says that a number of British institutions had claimed to have "no collaborative arrangements with Chinese partners".
Under the last government, health authorities were already moving towards more long-term collaborative arrangements with providers, so any change is likely to be cosmetic.The government has also become noticeably quiet on its commitment to end GP fundholding, the system which gave about 60% of family doctors their own budgets.
Collaborative arrangements with industry offer universities a variety of opportunities for enhanced income.
Scientific and technological collaborative arrangements and agreements turn into a crucial channel for transferring knowledge internationally.
