True Collaboration or Just to Get Funding Group 6 Simon, 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 1Alternative 2Alternative 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