Clique to participate with Petra Ahrweiler's Innovation Research Unit's (IRU) investigation into communication structures

As its core component, the study suggests to use a web questionnaire methodology developed by one of IRU´s main collaborators to study communication stuctures of research networks. So far, IRU's collaboration partner MIT Engineering Systems Division have investigated the Boston Biotech Cluster using this methodology (see Communications Network Biotech link below). IRU is interested in applying this web questionnaire method to the Clique group.

The "costs" of contribution would be that each member of Clique would get an email once a week for some months to remind him/her to fill out the web questionnaire which will need 1 minute.

The benefits for Clique are that we will not only have an interesting piece of network analysis in a highly relevant area in the end, but also to have an evolving communication pattern for our interdisciplinary and interorganisational group, which could support coordination and future developments of Clique.