"I don't think there's a company out there that doesn't realize they don't have enough products in the pipeline or the portfolio, don't have enough revenue to sustain their research and development".
About half the evaluated projects will continue to provide their results to academia and some will focus on creating a business to sustain their research work once the project finishes).
The larger number of grants held by Visiting Professors in the post-VP era is likely a result of VP training, as many of the Visiting Professors report writing collaborative grants with their sponsors and often return to their home institutions energized to sustain their research practices.
But they face daunting challenges in sustaining their Arctic research outpost and realizing that vision.
Few collaborative research networks have rigorously scoped the context and processes that need to be addressed to initiate and sustain their collaborative research endeavours.
This doesn't mean that faculty members won't help us, but it does mean that they are often stretched to the limit as they are working to sustain their own research programs, satisfy tenure and teaching requirements, and navigate departmental waters.
Moreover, when individuals receive feedback that they have achieved a proximal goal (e.g., developing a new technical skill), it signals that they are making progress toward a distal goal (e.g., obtaining a position conducting cutting-edge research), thereby sustaining their effort toward that goal (Latham and Seijts, 1999).
Academics sustain their personal development and research base through being invited into project based think tanks which tackle specific issues that need innovative solutions.
Some states, our own included, have become highly dependent on health care and healthcare research to sustain their economies.
But can young physician-scientists succeed in building and sustaining the research careers that they hope for during their lengthy training?
