Making Scientific Performance Measurable - Experiences From a German Cluster of Excellence

Vossen, René; Welter, Florian; Leisten, Ingo; Richert, Anja; Isenhardt, Ingrid

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33389-7_19

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“…The Cluster of Excellence (CoE) "Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass" at RWTH Aachen University adopts an interdisciplinary approach towards research of new, biomass-based synthetic fuels, in order to verify their potential, with regard to modern combustion technologies, while simultaneously reducing the dependence on fossil fuels [10]. The long-term goal is to determine the optimal combination of fuel components based on renewable materials and their production processes [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Fostering interdisciplinary integration in engineering management

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Zimmer

Schröder

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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Research in the challenging field of industrial engineering and engineering management often needs the expertise from more than one discipline. Various disciplinary competences have to be combined to answer research questions and to solve specific (engineering) problems at the interfaces of different professional disciplines. The disciplines being part of the research and problem solving process have to be consequently integrated to form an efficiently performing interdisciplinary consortium.Current research states that this interdisciplinary integration process has to include various dimensions. This paper introduces three sets of interdisciplinary integration methods. Together they cover all of the dimensions explained before and lead to an enhanced interdisciplinary integration. Having just implemented a set of integration methods, measurement methods are adjusted to evaluate and optimize them continually. Keywords -Interdisciplinary integration, KnowledgeManagement, Terminology, Virtual and physical cross linkage 1 http://www.dfg.de/en/index.jsp 2 http://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/en/home.html 3 The excellence initiative was started in 2005 by the government and federal states. It is divided into three funding lines: graduate schools, clusters of excellence and future concepts for top-level research. In 2012 its second funding period started.

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Section: Motivation and Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fostering interdisciplinary integration in engineering management

Vaegs

Zimmer

Schröder

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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“…The following figure illustrates the prototype. Furthermore already implemented measures as well as recommended 24 The prototype model was composed b literature analysis as well as an empirical app cluster-specific data resulting from di evaluations and structured interviews. identification of tailor-made measure of sc engineering.…”

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Knowledge engineering in interdisciplinary research clusters

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Vossen

Leisten

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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This paper proposes an innovative knowledge engineering approach for interdisciplinary research clusters. In science, different competences, knowledge, scientific experience and cultures converge. To cope with this challenge it is necessary to combine several dimensions of human, organization and technology within a holistic knowledge engineering approach. Cooperation structures have to be adapted accordingly. The authors present prototypes of an application oriented research to promote interdisciplinary knowledge production.

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“…One core area of CSP is the approach of scientific cooperation engineering, i.e., the systematic and controlled implementation of joint research that combines methodological and theoretical expertise from different specialties into a novel research output. The approach of scientific cooperation engineering was developed during and after the first funding period of the Cluster of Excellence (2006 -2012) [8]- [10]. Based on the insight that huge interdisciplinary research clusters need extra support in form of cluster-specific measures that can be used to manage the interdisciplinary structures successfully, CSPs were institutionalized in the second funding period [7].…”

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Publication network visualization as an approach for interdisciplinary innovation management

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Valdez

Ziefle

2013

IEEE International Professonal Communication 2013 Conference

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Interdisciplinary research is currently the central scientific approach, assumed to be the answer to large-scale research problems (e.g., health and aging, economics and production in high-wage countries). Although it is quite popular, there is still a lack of knowledge about how to measure, steer, support, and manage interdisciplinary success. This paper presents an approach to analyze, steer, and manage the structure and success of interdisciplinary cooperation by implementing a publication network visualization tool into an interdisciplinary research cluster. The presented study is an exploratory interview study addressing the significance of mixed node publication visualization usage within interdisciplinary teams. Members of a sample research group (N = 5) were asked to evaluate the publication visualization approach in order to find out more about the usefulness of such a tool for the interdisciplinary workflow. First results show that benefits of such a tool are seen in the ease of finding potential partners for cooperation. Barriers were seen, on the one hand, in the limitation of parameters that can be visualized, and on the other hand, in effects that could follow an implementation (e.g., pressure to publish, competition among team members, etc.).

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Making Scientific Performance Measurable - Experiences From a German Cluster of Excellence

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Fostering interdisciplinary integration in engineering management

Fostering interdisciplinary integration in engineering management

Knowledge engineering in interdisciplinary research clusters

Publication network visualization as an approach for interdisciplinary innovation management

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