ASU professors study the social dynamics of scientific collaborations

Society currently faces profound social and environmental challenges that must be met to secure a sustainable future. A major challenge in achieving this goal is discovering how best to synthesize important findings and ideas from many disciplines and use them to produce scientifically informed social and environmental policy. New research by John Parker and Edward Hackett of Arizona State University works to identify types of research environments and social interactions that facilitate success…

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/asu…