Collaborative Research: An Ontological Viewpoint
Contemporary aspects of research and scientific innovations often emphasize the integration of different research realms and results in a form of research coined as collaborative research. Collaboration of technologies, views, facts, and philosophies across boundaries of a specific realm often extends the chances of innovation. Collaborative research, therefore, can be viewed as research involving coordination between the researchers, institutions, organizations belonging to different realms. The collaborative concept of research has a profound impact on modern research dimensions and due to its vitality, it results in findings that are often beyond the scope of a single researcher. Some of the engrossing outcomes of contemporary research are collective utilization and optimization of resources, integration of diversified realms for the generation of new scientific knowledge, coalition of scientific elite, intellectual synergies, coauthored publications, the establishment of col