The Unique U.S.-Russian Relationship in Biological Science and Biotechnology Recent Experience and Future Directions (2013) / Chapter Skim
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8 Lessons Learned
8 Lessons Learned
Pages 101-108
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Failure to address such issues in a timely manner can reduce the likelihood that cooperation will lead to useful results. In particular, even if administrative arrangements for initial research activities seem flawless, the activities may have little effect on scientific or economic advancement or security enhancement in the absence of early identification of feasible approaches for capitalizing on research achievements.
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In recent years, however, scientific cooperation between the two countries has been slowly transforming into a series of partnerships, with both sides playing active roles in planning projects, in providing financing, and in sharing results and benefits from activities. Equitable sharing of direct costs of cooperative programs has been a particularly difficult issue, given the precedent of earlier patterns of U.S.
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Such support includes releasing key participants from other duties when necessary; providing appropriate working facilities for participating scientists; ensuring access by research teams to water, power, communications, maintenance, and transportation infrastructures of the institutions; and arranging facilitative services for visiting scientists.
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LESSONS LEARNED BY RESEARCH SCIENTISTS To obtain working-level perspectives as to lessons learned, the committee solicited reflections on personal experiences of a number of scientific collaborators in the two countries who had been active in one important area of bilateral cooperation -- joint research in the field of agriculture. The collaborators provided their observations concerning the successes of their project activities, the reasons for success, problems encountered, and lessons learned for future projects.
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Care should be taken in selection of the people who relocate or travel abroad, and reliable support mechanisms may be needed to avoid difficulties that reduce productivity or create personal hardships for temporary visitors. While researchers sometimes have a sufficient degree of fluency in the language of their international counterparts to carry out general exchanges of views and minor transactions, interpreters are often essential in development and implementation of long-term arrangements.
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Time lines for carrying out different phases of research are a continuing topic, and preliminary agreement on publications and authorship as well as other anticipated outcomes of collaboration needs to be reached early in the project and adjusted as necessary. In short, face-to-face field and laboratory visits at predetermined intervals may be essential, not only to coordinate activities but also to clarify misconceptions about the research approach and to build mutual confidence of reliability of foreign partners.
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Collaboration not only helps solve problems of direct interest to principal investigators, but also highly visible joint efforts can at times encourage other colleagues to become involved in international programs. Many other lessons learned are included in scientific publications, trip reports, and other manuscripts prepared by scientists involved in exchanges during the past decade.
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