Science Daily September 8, 2023 The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material resources in pursuit of a common goal. Despite this burgeoning interest, there exists little guidance on how to create, manage and participate in these collaborations. An international team of researchers (USA- Stanford University, Canada) integrated insights from a multi-disciplinary set of BTS initiatives to provide a how-to guide for BTS. They addressed the initial considerations for launching a BTS project, such as building the team, identifying leadership, governance, tools, and […]
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Long-distance collaboration makes scientific breakthroughs more likely
Phys.org May 31, 2022 Disruptive ideas and scientific breakthroughs are becoming increasingly rare and harder to find, with incremental discovery now more common than groundbreaking new findings. In an analysis of data for more than ten million research teams, across eleven academic fields from 1961 to 2020, researchers in the UK determined that over the past decade remote collaboration between academic teams has led to more scientific breakthroughs. This is a reversal of what was observed from the 1960s to the 2000s, when remote collaboration led to fewer scientific breakthroughs and more incremental innovation. New teams tend to create more […]