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A Certain Degree of Competitiveness

Posted on July 29, 2009

Competition and collaboration can coexist in the research field, states Helena Kraemer (bio).


We are competitive with each other. You have to be. You're competing with each other to get grants; you're competing with each other to get papers published. You certainly don't want somebody to publish your wonderful research yourself before you do. So I think there is a certain degree of competitiveness that has to be part of the process, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we're antagonistic to each other, and there's a great deal of collaboration.

Somebody mentioned yesterday there is no medical research these days that's not collaborative. That's true. The issues have become so much more complex over time that things like multi-site randomized clinical trials, particularly in psychiatry, are becoming the norm rather than an exception, and that requires a great deal of collaboration among researchers in the field.

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Excerpted from interview with researcher at the 2009 Career Development Institute for Psychiatry in Palo Alto, CA.

 

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