This award provides support to new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.
A related stream of research shows that teams are associated with higher performance only in cases of highly innovative projects.
With software development teams working on projects with varying degrees of innovativeness, we investigate the effects of Hoegl and Gemuenden's (2001) measure of teamwork quality on the performance of teams with moderately and highly innovative projects.
The five-year, $2.29 million grant supports "exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high biomedical impact," according to the program description.
"We will eventually negotiate a path to getting permits for highly innovative projects where there is no other animal model available," he says.
While private financing, especially from institutional investors, has been improving in the emerging markets in recent years, relatively few of these investors back companies that undertake highly innovative projects.
From the perspective of an investor, the project is riskier if it demands a larger and longer- term investment, is at an early stage of development, or involves a highly innovative product or service whose market potential is uncertain.
Chisolm said that the impact of a social media curriculum on medical students' personal growth, humanism and professionalism has never been reported, making this research project highly innovative.
The staff members were highly enthusiastic about the innovative project due to an increased awareness of mental disorders and suicide among college students in recent years.
These considerations highlight the timeliness and highly innovative nature of the project we propose here, which will allow us to examine multiple countries and services over time using explicit, standardized measurements of policies regarding public coverage and PHI regulation.
