Characterizing the AQ Cluster
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Cyberinfrastructure
- Distributed
- Collaborative
- Multidisciplinary
- Heterogenous
- Interoperable
- Accessible as a Public Good
- Sustainable
- Facilitates Collaboration
- Supports Experimentation
- Time and place are no longer barriers to participation and interaction
- Access is open to specialists and non-specialists alike
- Information is the primary driver for progress
- The realm of the possible is expanded through new capabilities, resources, and mechanisms
References
- D. Crawford, Charting our Cyberinfrastructure Future
- Necessary Characteristics of a Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Greer, NSF and Cyberinfrastructure
System of Systems
Global Earth Observation System of Systems
Systems of Systems Engineering
- Dual Citizenship
Virtual Organization
Decadal Survey
Leaderless Organization
- Is there a person in charge?
- Are there headquarters?
- If you thump it on the head, will it die?
- Is there a clear division of roles?
- If you take out a unit, is the organization harmed?
- Are knowledge and power concentrated or distributed?
- Is the organization flexible or rigid?
- Can you count the employees or participants?
- Are working groups funded by the organization or are they self-funding?
- Do working groups communicate directly or through intermediaries?
- Circles
- The Catalyst
- Ideaology
- The Preexisting Network
- The Champion
References
O. Brafman and R. Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider
Open Innovation
- Not all the smart people work for us. We need to work with smart people inside and outside our organization
- External R&D can create significant value; internal R&D is needed to claim some portion of that value
- We don't have to originate the research to profit from it
- If we make the best use of internal and external ideas, we will win
- We should profit from others' use of our intellectual property, and we should use others' intellectual property whenever it advances our own objectives
References
H. Chesbrough, Open Innovation