BACKGROUND Health partnerships between institutions in the UK and Low or Lower- middle Income Countries are an increasingly important model of development, yet analysis of partnerships has focused on benefits and costs to the Low and Lower- Middle Income partner. We reviewed the evidence on benefits and costs of health partnerships to UK individuals, institutions & the NHS and sought to underst...

HDI’s interdisciplinary approach facilitates cu"ing edge and innovative solutions. HDI’s collaborative approach builds partnerships with churches, faith-based organizations, humanitarian organizations, private research organizations, individual scientific collaborators, academic centers, and state and federal agencies. Our aim is to compliment or extend the success of these organizations by joi...

Health secretary Alan Johnson announced in March the identities of the first five academic health science centres in the UK, one of which is the result of a collaboration between Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. These centres are partnerships between world-class universities and leading NHS organisations, and this article examines the implications of their esta...

This paper outlines briefly the Digital Government Research Center‘s work to build partnerships and foster collaboration among academic researchers and government IT stakeholders under NSF Digital Government grants, and to increase public awareness and understanding of the Digital Government research field during 2004 and early 2005.

We present the current status of Abu-MaTran (http://www.abumatran.eu), a 4-year project (January 2013–December 2016) on rapid development of machine translation for underresourced languages. It is funded under Marie Curie's Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways 2012 programme. This is a consortium-based project with 5 partners (4 academic and 1 industrial).

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously-formed partnerships facing a social dilemma. Treatments vary in terms of the individual’s: (1) opportunity to commit to their partner; (2) the cost of dissolving committed partnerships; and (3) the distribution of these dissolution costs between partners. Our findings show that pledg...

The goal of postdoctoral training is production of scientists capable of successfully pursuing academic and research careers (Patterson & Hanson, 1995). The postdoctoral fellowship is a period of apprenticeship. It is a time when one is fully socialized into an academic and researcher role. Building a successful academic career is a complex process that requires an understanding of institutiona...