Motivations for cross-boundary research collaboration

“If cross-boundary collaboration is necessary to tackle today’s grand challenges, the question becomes what motivations make researchers and practitioners to engage in cross-discipline and cross-sectoral collaboration. Previous research focused mainly on collaboration between researchers, and this study adds to this the understanding of collaboration between a variety of professionals other than only researchers. From this we may understand better the conditions for efficient cross-boundary collaboration.”

(Citaat: Wen, B., van der Zouwen, M.W., van Vierssen, W., van den Besselaar, P. – Motivations for cross-boundary research collaboration – Oral presentation at 2017 SciTS Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL. Jun 13, 2017)