Such expertise is normally scattered across research institutes, says Zukoski; Fusionopolis brings all that expertise together in one place.
Second, intermediaries are information intensive, and it takes local expertise to access scattered information and analyze data of variable quality.
For any given strategic question (such as how Opel should enter the East German market), relevant expertise resides in scattered, sometimes unexpected parts of a corporation.
Because many large companies have pockets of expertise and knowledge scattered across different locations, harnessing the cognitive diversity within organizations can open up rich new sources of innovation.
Allanore, who worked in the steel industry before joining MIT, says progress has been slow both because experiments are difficult at these high temperatures, and also because the relevant expertise tends to be scattered across disciplines.
The companies have widely scattered offices and expertise in customs regulations.
He went beyond his circle of Harvard colleagues and beyond the expertise of fellow biologists; he turned to software programmers scattered around the world who had little expertise in the life sciences.
In this case, expertise and a sense of urgency were scattered unevenly across bureaucracies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Defense Department.
He wants to tap the expertise of the company's hundreds of researchers scattered around the world, all of whom are researching different computational biology questions and he specifically needs the small handful whose expertise most closely matches his problem.
As such, the expertise needed to address indoor environmental quality is scattered among diverse research fields and disciplines.
