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Research Team Creation Part 2

Research Team Creation Part 2. Prof. Amos DAVID. The team’s IDENTITY. Field of study Avoid dispersion Even if multidisciplinary studies there is need for a major discipline The team leader IMPORTANT : The acceptance of team work. Structure of the team. Autonomous?

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Research Team Creation Part 2

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  1. Research Team CreationPart 2 Prof. Amos DAVID

  2. The team’s IDENTITY • Field of study • Avoid dispersion • Even if multidisciplinary studies there is need for a major discipline • The team leader • IMPORTANT : The acceptance of team work

  3. Structure of the team • Autonomous? • As regards fields of study • Financially • Legalresponsibility • Within an existing laboratory? • Need to blend with the global objective at the laboratory level • Within an existingresearchinstitute? • Need to be in line with the objectives of the research institute

  4. Finance • Financial resources • Any incentive? • By the government (Federal, State, Local) • By the surrounding socio-economic structures • Industries • Foundations • National and International funding bodies • See “Grant proposal Writing • Personal investment • You will not always have the required financial need on time • You may never get financialreturn • It is very often in form of intangible benefits • The joy of achieved objectives • Indirect benefit (promotion, renown, contribution to national building, etc.)

  5. Operation cost • Human resources • Secretariat • Technicians • Material resources • Hardware • Software • Connectivity (Internet, telephone, etc.) • Scientific events • Organization • The whole event? • Committee member? • Participation • Through papers? • Observation?

  6. Publishing results • Papers • Journal • Conference articles • Books • Lone • Collective • For the research team • For the researcher • Renown • Promotion • DANGER : “Publish or Perish” • Focus on the volume and not on the value ! • Easier said than done !

  7. Basic facts • A research team can not compete with an enterprise • Long term focus • Immediate financial return • Very few researchers are millionaires/billionaires • Dilemma between “consultancy” and “research studies”

  8. If you can dream it, you can make it

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