Global collaboration bears fruit: Tanzania report

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!

Needed: Global Collaboration for Comparative Research on Cities and Health

Over half of the world’s population lives in cities and United Nations (UN) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. Yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and management (HPAM), particularly in the megacities of middle-income and developing nations. We make a case for creating a global database on citie...

Innovation through Global Collaboration

Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operat...

Opportunities for global collaboration.

Wen-Shyong Liou, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, and Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Taichung; Taiwan, Republic of China. Address correspondence to Dr. Liou at the School of Pharmacy, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan (wlswlsgod@gmail. com). The author has declared no potential conflict...

Global e-science collaboration

ongoing research efforts are aimed at exploiting the vast bandwidth of fiberoptic networks to both interconnect resources and enable high-performance applications, challenges continue to arise in the area of the optical control plane. The ultimate goal in this area is to extend the concept of application-driven networking into the optical space, providing unique features that couldn’t be achiev...