Lessons from Neuroscience…

Challenges of Transatlantic R&D

collaborations

Copyright James L. Olds 2011, All

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International Decade of the Mind Project

• Science Magazine Manifesto

• 2007 Washington, 2009 Berlin, 2010 Singapore

• “Big Data” Recognition

• $4B new US R&D proposed during 2008 election

cycle

• International Collaboration Required: “Big Science”

• Existing cross fertilization and collaborations

• The Fourth Estate

• Social Networking

• The Great Recession: Plusses and Minuses

Overarching Challenges• Governing Law

• Technology transfer/Intellectual Property

• Academic organizational heterogeneity

• Soft Skill Differences/Training

Transatlantic Soft-Skills• Grantsmanship: NIH/NSF versus Framework

• “Table manners”

• Publications/Editorial

• Ethics (especially Human Use)

• IP

• Mentorship

• Teaching/Grading

• Compliance law

• Getting into graduate school, securing a postdoc

and getting a job

Take Home:• EU-North American Trainees End Up on both sides of

The Pond

• We typically only train them to succeed in our own

home environment

• Is that preparing them for a global scientific

market?