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DTU and Harvard receives funding for new project
Posted: March 04, 2010 by Daniel Vámosi Martinussen
DTU Executive School of Business, DTU Business, has been granted almost DKK 19 million in a collaborative project to study the creation and process of virtual networks creating innovation.
An increasing number of people join forces on the internet to develop everything from boats to research equipment and these processes take place in so called virtual networks where people with common interests meet to develop new ideas and products.
These developing networks has gone from "open source" software development to a much wider application area today. However, the unanswered question is still how these virtual networks arise and what outcome they produce.
International collaboration
Managed by DTU business the research collaboration, consisting of researchers from Aarhus University, WU Vienna, MIT and Harvard University amongst others, will analyze the initiation, engagement and management of the user driven networks and how the generated knowledge is practically applied.
As part of the project a number of virtual networks will be established and made available for nurses in the Copenhagen Region and the nurses' engagement and interaction through these networks will consequently be observed and analyzed.
The empirical data obtained from the project will illustrate, which mechanisms of coordination that works and which are less efficient.
Apart from the primary objective of the project the nurses will also contribute by utilizing their unique knowledge to ensure a more innovative Danish health sector.
Source: dtu.dk
