Recientemente hemos sido testigos de una colaboración un tanto sorprendente entre un investigador de ciencias sociales en Estados Unidos y un astrofísico afincado en Londres. Parece poco probable, ¿verdad? ¿Y en qué trabajaron juntos? En el análisis de datos. El investigador (de la Universidad de Stony Brook, Nueva York) estaba estudiando el efecto de la frecuencia de las visitas al gimnasio en el rendimiento académico. Su equipo no pudo obtener ningún patrón significativo del conjunto de datos de casi 800.000 registros. Publicó su proyecto en KolabtreeEl Sr. G. B., y un astrofísico del Imperial College de Londres (acostumbrado a manejar grandes conjuntos de datos, como es de suponer) le ayudaron a llevar a cabo el proyecto.
Este es sólo uno de los muchos ejemplos de las numerosas colaboraciones transfronterizas que se dan en todo el mundo. A medida que la ciencia se vuelve cada vez más interdisciplinaria, se producen múltiples solapamientos en las habilidades y conocimientos necesarios para los distintos campos de estudio. Según un Informe científico de la UNESCO, “one in four scientific articles produced around the world were cosigned by a foreign collaborator in 2014, compared to one in five a decade earlier.” Countries all over the world are joining hands to help fuel research and innovation, in a political climate that is becoming alarmingly anti-science. Under Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme, academia in the EU and the USA will be able to work together closely. Science Europe and Elsevier conducted a estudiar which examined cross-border collaborations and found that “researchers in the US are more likely to collaborate with researchers from outside the US than researchers in Europe are likely to collaborate with researchers outside Europe.” This also means that there is a huge potential for European researchers to expand their network outside the region.
We’ve seen cross-border partnerships in all realms of science and tech – take NASA-ISRO (NISAR), Novartis-Google (smart contact lenses), GE-Microsoft (PaaS). Five tech giants – Google, Amazon, IBM, Facebook and Microsoft – han formado recientemente the Partnership on Inteligencia Artificial to Benefit People and Society. In salud, collaborative platforms help deliver quality medical services around the world – John Hopkins works with institutions in Canada, Turkey, UAE, Singapore and Brazil, just to name a few. Networks like Catapulta Reino Unido poner en contacto a empresas, ingenieros y científicos que pueden trabajar juntos para transformar las ideas en productos y servicios innovadores, impulsando el crecimiento económico.
It’s no secret that collaboration is definitely the way forward for better research, better innovation. We believe that science and research can never be restricted by lines on a map. As a platform that encourages cross-border collaboration, we’ve started the 1TP3Investigación sin fronteras initiative, that aims to showcase collaborative projects in science, tech, engineering and medicine from around the world. If you’re an organization, a researcher, a university or an individual collaborating across borders on an exciting research project, we’d love to hear from you!
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