Doctoral Dissertation Research: Research Obstacles and Problem Solving in Scientific R&D Teams

科学团队允许个人的整合？将专业知识转化为连贯的努力，从知识的深度和广度中受益--这是创新的两大基石--创造力和新奇的成功组合。然而，出现的障碍，必须克服，以实现研究的目标，但很少有人知道什么样的障碍所面临的，以及如何和是否解决。更好地理解应对研究障碍的策略将有利于对解决问题和团队科学感兴趣的学者，寻求增加团队的管理者？解决问题的能力，以及资助机构和科学政策专家寻求提高研究投资的有效性。本项目介绍并阐述了研究障碍的概念，开发了这一概念的测量，并调查了科学研究和开发（R D）团队解决问题的过程。通过对项目负责人和科学家的深入访谈进行定性分析，旨在了解多学科/多功能制药研发团队解决问题的常规。进一步的分析探讨了常规如何在严重的研究障碍的重压下打破。科学家进行了调查，以辨别解决问题的沟通模式的效率，并发现团队间和团队内的沟通结构，促进团队为基础的解决问题的能力。

Scientific teams allow for the integration of individuals? expertise into a coherent effort, benefitting from depth and breadth of knowledge - a winning combination for creativity and novelty, two cornerstones of innovation. However, obstacles arise that must be overcome in order to fulfill the aims of research yet little is known about what kinds of obstacles are confronted and how and whether they are resolved. A greater understanding of strategies to deal with research obstacles will benefit academics interested in problem-solving and team science, managers seeking to increase their teams? problem-solving capabilities, and funding agencies and science policy experts as they seek to increase the effectiveness of research investments. This project introduces and explicates the concept of a research obstacle, develops measurements of this concept, and investigates problem-solving processes of scientific research and development (R&D) teams. Qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with project leaders and scientists seeks to understand the problem-solving routines of multi-disciplinary/ multi-functional pharmaceutical R&D teams. Additional analysis explores how routines break under the weight of serious research obstacles. Scientists are surveyed to discern the efficiency of problem-solving communication patterns and to uncover the inter- and intra-team communication structures that promote team-based problem-solving capability.