VOSS: Collaborative Research: Towards Collaboration Strength in Virtual Research Organizations

VOSS：协作研究：增强虚拟研究组织的协作强度

• 批准号: 0838367
• 负责人: Jonathon Cummings
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2011-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0838367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Collaborative; Research; Towards; Collaboration

Technology has made possible virtual research organizations involving researchers from different institutions. Virtual research organizations are expected to improve the speed of innovations and the creativity of scientists by bringing expertise to projects that would otherwise be unavailable. This project contributes to the scientific study of this new way of organizing scientific work and examines the problem of collaborating in virtual research organizations at the level of the collaboration and collaborators. The purpose of the research is to better understand how dispersed, interdisciplinary projects succeed, and to explore how virtual organizations might best use new tools and infrastructure. This research builds on the investigators? prior work in understanding the Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative, which included close to 500 interdisciplinary technology research projects supported by the NSF. The proposed work entails an archival analysis of ITR final reports to discern the longer-term impact of the ITR projects and a longitudinal follow-up survey of ITR investigators. This research will contribute to organization science and social network theory, and to a better understanding of science and technology. The results will be useful for social scientists interested in organizations, computer scientists and technologists interested in tools and infrastructure that work, and decision and policy makers who invest in research. Virtual research organizations in science and engineering are essential to the nation?s future and to solving global problems. This research will aid policy understanding of requirements of distributed interdisciplinary collaboration, improve metrics and approaches for evaluating the direct and indirect outcomes of research programs, suggest policies for future programs in innovative scientific research and education, and provide information to organizations, particularly departments and universities, about the institutional policies and practices that best support distributed interdisciplinary research.

技术使虚拟研究组织成为可能，涉及来自不同机构的研究人员。预计虚拟研究组织将通过将专业知识带入原本不可用的项目来提高创新速度和科学家的创造力。该项目有助于对这种组织科学工作的新方式的科学研究，并研究了在合作和合作者层面上在虚拟研究组织中进行合作的问题。该研究的目的是更好地了解分散，跨学科项目如何成功，并探索虚拟组织如何最好地使用新工具和基础架构。这项研究基于调查人员？先前了解信息技术研究（ITR）倡议的工作，其中包括NSF支持的近500个跨学科技术研究项目。拟议的工作需要对ITR最终报告进行档案分析，以辨别ITR项目的长期影响和对ITR研究人员的纵向后续调查。这项研究将有助于组织科学和社会网络理论，并更好地理解科学和技术。结果将对对组织，计算机科学家和技术人员感兴趣的社会科学家有用，对有效的工具和基础设施以及投资研究的决策和决策者。科学和工程领域的虚拟研究组织对于国家的未来和解决全球问题至关重要。这项研究将有助于对分布式跨学科合作的要求的政策理解，改善评估研究计划的直接和间接成果的指标和方法，提出针对创新科学研究和教育领域未来计划的政策，并向组织，尤其是部门和大学提供有关机构政策和大学的信息，以最好地支持机构和实践，以最大程度地支持提供互动研究的机构和实践。