COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IS THE FUTURE OF NEXT PHASE OF RESEARCH

 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IS THE FUTURE OF NEXT PHASE                                               OF RESEARCH

Dr. Manish Bhardwaj

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad

 

When used in the context of scholarly study, the word "collaboration" is generally understood to mean a cooperative effort between two or more researchers from different universities who find each other's work to be interesting and useful. When conducting collaborative research, it is common practice to bring together several individuals from different fields. Researchers from various institutions (government, academia, non-profits, and industry) work together to define the problem, with the end goal of informing management or policy decisions.

Collaborative research is defined by its focus on a clearly articulated policy or managerial need. Together, practitioners and scientists work to influence the project's scope and design, and the two also interact to develop research results and outputs as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1: Collaborative Research

There are many different motivations for people to work together on a topic through collaborative research. Funding organizations often look favorably upon interdisciplinary research teams since they can pool their resources to accomplish more. The fact that no one individual is responsible for everything is one of the greatest benefits of collaborative research based on the equal division of labor model. Team members will have plenty of chances to gain expertise in other areas of the company as they work on the project. By working together on research, scientists, legislators, and management are able to pool their knowledge and expertise to solve pressing problems. Better results are achieved when researchers work alongside practitioners rather than trying to do their work for them.

Five main categories of joint research exist:

Within Academic Institute- In this scenario, individuals of the same academic institution but from different departments work together on a project. Due to the fact that it is conducted within the same institution's many divisions, no extra funds are required, and the workload is fairly distributed.

Between Two Academic Institutes - As a collaboration between academic institutions, this group consists of students, faculty, and staff from a variety of different schools working together on a same topic.

Between Government Agency and Academic Institutes- Institutions of higher learning collaborate with government departments or agencies to find solutions to pressing societal problems. The government agency provides the financing for this study.

Institutions of higher learning and private industry- in this kind of study, a researcher from a private firm collaborates with a team of academics. During this time, the non-academic researcher works on his own project and picks the brains of his fellow group members on cutting-edge methods and intriguing research problems.

International and National- Both national and international research collaborations involve teams from multiple institutions and often span multiple countries.


Figure 2: Enablers and Challenges of Collaborative Research

Collaborative research has the potential to yield significant findings, but it also gives rise to a number of moral questions because of the sheer volume of individuals, organizations, and resources that must be pooled together. It brings up numerous questions of authorship ethics. Agreements regarding the level of involvement required before a researcher's name can be included in a publication vary widely across disciplines. Each member of the research team must make either a "significant intellectual contribution" or a "important scientific contribution" before they may be included as an author.

 


Dr. Manish Bhardwaj

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad

Email: aapkaapna13@gmail.com, Manish.bhardwaj@kiet.edu

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