Table of Contents
A Consortium Approach to Marine Science
Introduction
The Origins of VIMS and Its Consortium Approach
Benefits and Problems of a Consortium Approach
Realizing the Benefits, Overcoming the Problems
VIMS' Role in the Consortium
Building on the Consortium Approach
Conclusion
References
Index
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Benefits and Problems of a Consortium Approach
In general, the benefits can be summarised as:
- Rationalization of resources, through avoiding duplication of:
- physical assets such as vessels, instrumentation, equipment, laboratories, aquaria.
- effort, through shared contributions to research and teaching.
- Achievement of goals that are beyond the scope or resources of a single organization, such as:
- major capital investment in plant and facilities.
- large and/or interdisciplinary research programs.
- Raising the overall quality of research and teaching within the consortium by:
- enabling each organization to occupy a 'niche' in which the highest possible quality can be achieved.
- giving a coherence and completeness to the aggregate research or teaching capability, so that the range and standards of the 'service' provided to the community or to user-groups can be maximised.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Victorian Institute of Marine Sciences
Hammond, Laurie 1992 'A Consortium Approach to Marine Science', Education, Antarctica, Marine Science and Australia's Future: Proceedings of the Phillip Law 80th Birthday Symposium, 23 April 1992, Royal Society of Victoria, pp. 63-70.
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