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Current research by one of this article's authors with MIT Sloan Professor Fiona Murray, finds that the cost of collaboration seems to outweigh the benefits.
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…THE BIGGEST challenge to global scientific collaboration is the lack of funding earmarked for the costs of collaboration itself.… Funding the exchange of knowledge itself and not a tangible thing like a piece of equipment or a stipend for a worker does not seem to be on the radar of most funding agencies.
The emergence of bridging organizations seems to lower the costs of collaboration by accessing and consolidating various avenues of knowledge and interest to respond to social ecological change (27).
Of broader interest is FIC's Collaboration Award, which uses the R03 mechanism to pay the costs of collaborations between U.S. investigators and their research partners in the developing world.
Mayo Clinic sponsored the data analysis, statistical support, and cost of international collaboration.
With this enforcement in place, Brooker says they can point to the conference rooms that are underutilized and save companies $25,000 to $35,000 per room - the average cost of a collaboration space in most cities around the world.
If two people interact repeatedly, then not reciprocating but exploiting the partner has to be weighted against the cost of losing collaboration in the future [10], [11].
The cost of international collaboration depends on the research involved.
Of course, being scooped is a huge fear of researchers, but what about the lost opportunity cost of increased collaboration or the extra data now made available to researchers in the developing world due to greater data sharing?
As Costello et al. [ 33] argue, 'postal' (sending biomedical samples) or 'parachute' research (sending researchers on short-term placements) may limit low-income countries involvement in the research and provide an opportunity cost of the collaboration, if there is not a concomitant sharing of the analysis.
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