The choice of the right mix of control mechanisms contributes to the success of collaboration across firms' boundaries.
Among these difficulties, the link between the content of science and the values and believes underlying researchers' and stakeholders' perspectives remains unexplored although it is a critical point in the success of collaboration.
Researchers have used Vygotsky's zone of proximal development to explain the success of collaboration, especially in heterogeneous groups, with respect to ability (e.g., Mugny and Doise, 1978; Tudge, 1990).
This paper uses path overlap, an innovative measure of functional proximity, to examine how physical space shaped the formation and success of scientific collaborations among the occupants of two academic research buildings.
This will give an indication of the success of previous collaborations among the TCRN members.
The panel highlighted the role that universities and university students can play in promoting the success of such collaborations.
The Young Vic's venture into film-making has been inspired by the extraordinary success of a collaboration with the Guardian, for which directors, writers and actors were commissioned to make short, "bold" spin-off films of their stage productions.
The success of their collaboration can be attributed to the fact that each understood the other's ideas, resulting in houses and gardens that looked as though they were designed by one person.
