Collaboration

Innovation through Collaboration

Collaboration is essential to successful innovation. In support of this principle the steps necessary for multi-institutional collaboration to occur include:

• Team-based science
• Well-defined problems; concrete, attainable goals; and clear action plans
• Tools to collaborate (such as structured communications and data-banking for research purposes)
• Agreement on how research results are reported, published, and disseminated
• Shared commitment and accountability
• Openness to organizational change and consolidation to facilitate research progress and efficiency
• Trust
• An agreed-upon approach to intellectual property that maximizes collaboration in research
• An open standards-setting process