Collaboration in Practice
Six failure modes, all preventable in the first month
The same six problems recur across partnership after partnership, and all six are cheap to prevent early.
#approval timelines
Collaboration in Practice
Institutions and Universities
The research office: your most useful ally and the one people skip
Foreign collaborators build a relationship with a researcher and skip the office that will process every agreement.
Data and Its Limits
Getting data: administrative and survey data exist, and access takes longer than you plan for
Rich administrative and surveillance datasets exist. The constraint is the access process, not availability.
Collaboration in Practice
How joint projects actually run: the constraints nobody writes into the proposal
Approval timelines, teaching calendars and procurement rules shape a project more than the research design does.
Institutions and Universities
Institutions explained: reporting lines determine whose approval you need
Whether an institution reports to an education ministry or a sector ministry changes the approval path entirely.