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The Science of Team Science is a new interdisciplinary field that empirically examines the processes by which large and small scientific teams, research centers, and institutes organize, communicate, and conduct research. This includes understanding how teams connect and collaborate to achieve scientific breakthroughs that would not be attainable by either individual or simply additive efforts.
The committee explored the topic to recommend opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of collaborative research in science teams, research centers, and institutes, including factors such as team dynamics, team management, and institutional structures and policies that affect large and small science teams.
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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science
Consensus Study Report
·2015
The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by a shift toward collaborative research, referred to as "team science." Scientific research is increasingly conducted by small teams and larg...
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