Scientific collaboration in the proper meaning of the word, supporting new idea without waiting for material benefits, is it really useful?
Scientific collaboration is very essential in research. It helps to exchange the ideas,upgradation of scientific thoughts and most importantly the work done in collaboration becomes most acceptable. It strengthens the scientific community and integrity among researchers.
new ideas come with two possibilities success or fail. aslong more people are aware of your successes or your failures , science will moove forward faster since people will know what it works or not, without material benefits. just experience.
To some, it's everything. To others, it's just more of the same.
It's useful if you have a clear statement of the problem at the outset and the collective expertise to address that problem. That is, the interaction is more likely to be successful if people can see the scope of the problem at the beginning and whether the solution is rationalizable by us. Otherwise, you should expect a lot of hurt feelings and roadblocks from participating investigators thinking the obstruction is the other guy's responsibility and nothing getting accomplished.
Also, I don't agree that scientific collaboration is what you say it is.
Well it depends, in my opinion if your goal is material benefits such as money or singular recognition, then collaboration is still useful but not that important. However if you goal is to make a significant difference in the world then collaboration, in the sense of working in a group to achieve a singular goal, is the key. By working with others, both within and out of your field can bring in new perspectives on an idea and produce something much more refined and elegant. I have so much angst with the science community sometimes, we need to work together. collaboration is the key to discovery in this new age. Anyway that is my rant haha
Scientific collaboration may help for getting new idea from other experts resulted to scientifically accurate results and interpretation of experiments.
Hi, I just want to highlight it as a promising avenue to expand knowledge of researchers and validity of their results. As an idom: TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE!!
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Scientific collaboration is very essential in research. It helps to exchange the ideas,upgradation of scientific thoughts and most importantly the work done in collaboration becomes most acceptable. It strengthens the scientific community and integrity among researchers.
Well, scientific collaboration is a necessity in this big and crowded world, of coursre it sould be, also we have to wait for benefits (credits, projects, fundings...) from our idea, but in my opinion build a collaboration in a basis of, only, benefits is not a true strategy, we will loose many new ideas, capabilities and the most important thing in my opinion that would be lost is trust!
There are different forms of scientific collaborations. Many of them will benefit the science and the human race as a whole.
Example 1: years ago, multiple countries participated in rice genome sequencing. Different country was assigned different chromosomes for sequencing. This collaboration effort sped up the progress of the project and finished the project early, without spending funds on sequencing a same plant species redundantly from different countries.
Example 2: every lab has its strength and its weakness on certain technologies and on different disciplinary knowledge. The collaboration between several labs can lead to the production of most reliable data and the most accept results, as mentioned by Tejaswini.
Example 3: through scientific collaborations, technologies/methods can be introduced to help improving the crop productions (for example) of certain area/regions where those knowledge are needed the most; this in turn, benefit the whole human race as a whole.
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