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.

技术使来自不同机构的研究人员参与的虚拟研究组织成为可能。虚拟研究组织有望通过为原本无法获得的项目带来专业知识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进行科学研究，并在协作者和合作者层面上研究虚拟研究组织中的协作问题。该研究的目的是更好地了解分散的跨学科项目如何取得成功，并探索虚拟组织如何最好地使用新工具和基础设施。这项研究建立在调查人员的基础上？之前的工作是了解信息技术研究 (ITR) 计划，其中包括由 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，以了解 ITR 项目的长期影响，并对 ITR 调查人员进行纵向跟踪调查。这项研究将有助于组织科学和社交网络理论，以及更好地理解科学和技术。研究结果对于对组织感兴趣的社会科学家、对有效工具和基础设施感兴趣的计算机科学家和技术人员以及投资研究的决策者和政策制定者来说将非常有用。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。这项研究将有助于政策对分布式跨学科合作要求的理解，改进评估研究项目直接和间接成果的指标和方法，为创新科学研究和教育的未来项目提出政策建议，并向组织，特别是院系和大学提供有关最支持分布式跨学科研究的机构政策和实践的信息。