If you have team-research culture in other Departments then it is easy to develop the same within your Department. Team research centers around broad themes - for example those who are interested in Lean Manufacturing or Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing or Quality Assurance or Robotics, can come together and identify a specific area and begin working on it. Research, many academicians consider as individualistic, but I feel that team-research (like team-teaching) brings in synergy, speeds up the outcomes (in the form of publications or patents or research funding) and builds cohesive teams. In a newly started department, it is much easier to start team-research, as compared to the older departments (because personal egos, superior-than-thou attitudes, micro-groups and politics exist.

Thank you sir @sridhar