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RESEARCH POLICY
Volume 36, Issue 10, Pages 1620-1634Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2007.09.001
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collaboration; teamwork; knowledge; coordination; geography
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Multi-university collaborations draw on diverse resources and expertise, but they impose coordination costs for bridging institutional differences and geographic distance. We report a study of the coordination activities and project outcomes of 491 research collaborations funded by the US National Science Foundation. Coordination activities, especially division of responsibility for tasks and knowledge transfer among investigators, predicted project outcomes (e.g., producing new knowledge, creating new tools, and training students). However, more universities involved in a collaboration predicted fewer coordination activities and fewer project outcomes. A statistical mediation analysis showed that insufficient coordination explained the negative relationship between multi-university collaboration and project outcomes. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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