True Collaboration or

Just to Get Funding

Group 6Simon, Wangshu, Kalle, Lu, Jingying

The Dilemma?

• Easier to get funding with an international collaboration

• Will the collaborator really contribute to the science

Ethical Problems

• Part of the money might not be spent on research

• Should we include ‘VIP’ to borrow their influence?

• Co-authorship in the publication

Who will be affected?

• Two collaborating groups• Affiliated institutions• Individual researchers• Funding agencies• Competing groups• The science

Solutions

• Alternative 1:

Include the collaborator even though the money won’t be spent solely on research• Alternative 2:

Don’t include the collaborator and apply anyway with the risk of not getting funded at all• Alternative 3:

Need for a change…

Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3

Strength • Get funding• Broader results/data• Promote future

applications

• Fairness• Money would be well

spent only on research

• Freedom to realize own scientific wills

• Manage to combine the strengths of alternative 1&2

Weakness • Money poorly spent• Uneven work

distribution• Hinder development of

other competitive groups

• No money at all• No collaboration,

isolation of research• Limited resources

• Difficult to achieve in reality

Comparisons

Discussion

• What do you think