Perhaps the most important environmental condition favouring interdisciplinarity is the building of an institutional 'platform' for collaboration: an infrastructure of research organizations, academic journals, funding committees and informal networks of researchers that actively foster interdisciplinary research.
This was when conservatives started to build a large infrastructure of research organizations for scholars and experts who created policy initiatives.
That decision angered some of the people involved in the alliance, which has tended to emphasize building up a "progressive infrastructure" of research groups and issue advocacy organizations rather than winning elections.
A version of this thinking has long guided conservative political philanthropists, whose distaste for government has not blinded them to the value of influencing it, and whose money helped create an entire infrastructure of research organizations in Washington in the 1980s and '90s dedicated to shrinking government.
Resurrecting research in the country's private sector, renewing the infrastructure of research institutions, and training a new generation of scientists are the main aims of the strategy.
It's likely that more rigorous faculty accountability - conducted by peers and colleagues -- will result in some reduction in the costs of education and of the infrastructure of research.
Regional National Health Service (NHS) based research networks support a large infrastructure of research nurses within local hospital trusts.
Our data suggest that more help should be provided by the developed nations to developing areas for improvement of the infrastructure of research.
Libraries have significant roles to play to advance both social and technical infrastructures of a research data ecosystem in a strategic, targeted, and synchronized fashion.
The Advisory Council on Health Research ( Raad voor Gezondheidsonderzoek, RGO), established in 1987, advises the government, especially the ministry of Health, the ministry of Education and Science, and the ministry of Economic Affairs, on matters relating to health research, health services research and the infrastructure of such research.
