The network approach exhibits several categories of R&D partnerships, so that different structures of collaborative networks can be described.
Our presented view concept provides a high degree of flexibility for participating organizations, since internal structures of collaborative workflows may be adapted without changes in the inter-organizational workflows.
Four main areas of structural relationships were studied: structural relationships within and between organisations; health professionals and social context; structure of quality collaboratives and healthcare partnerships; and structure in knowledge sharing networks.
But what struck me about every one of these products is the lack of mechanisms to bring structure to collaborative work.
The learners were guided by the supervisors to use information from written policy documents, for instance, the order of the round as a structure for collaborative activities.
Integration of the Research Networks with the Cancer Service Networks from NCRN's initiation provided a structure for collaborative working and placed clinical research on the agenda of service provision.
This translates to the online principle "publish first, filter later" which has been coined by the author Clay Shirky [44] with regards to the structures of new collaborative forms of knowledge generation.
It describes how spatially explicit models and simulations of urban development, first used as demonstrators, have raised individual interests and expectations and facilitated the structuring of a collaborative research network.
The paper presents the main results of the KOMET (Knowledge and cOntent structuring via METhods of collaborative ontology design) project, which aims to develop a novel paradigm for knowledge structuring based on the interplay between cognitive psychology and ontology engineering.
Changes to existing professional responsibilities, hierarchical structures and ways of collaborative working of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team have been found in previous studies investigating the impact of new IT systems in healthcare settings [ 16, 56- 59].
