Table 3.
Participation in collaborations.a
| Question | Prototype, mean (SD) | Overall, mean (SD) | ||
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Paper (n=18) | Functional (n=20) | (n=38) | |
| 2. Approximately, how many funded research projects have you participated in during the past 12 months? | ||||
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Principal investigators | 3.2 (1.8) | 4.9 (3.8) | 4.2 (3.2) |
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Research facilitators | 10.3 (13.9) | 7.8 (9.1) | 8.9 (10.8) |
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Overall | 5.1 (7.4) | 5.6 (5.5) | 5.4 (6.3) |
| 3. Approximately, what was the average number of collaborators you directly interact with in each project? | ||||
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Principal investigators | 18.5 (21.9) | 13.2 (15.9) | 15.6 (18.5) |
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Research facilitators | 5.5 (0.7) | 20.4 (33.4) | 16.1 (28.3) |
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Overall | 16.5 (20.6) | 15.1 (21.0) | 15.7 (20.5) |
| 4. What is the total number of unique collaborators you have interacted with in the last 12 months? | ||||
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Principal investigators | 27.1 (26.8) | 29.0 (19.9) | 28.3 (22.2) |
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Research facilitators | 15.0 (7.1) | 56.2 (51.8) | 44.4 (46.9) |
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Overall | 24.9 (24.6) | 35.8 (31.7) | 31.9 (29.4) |
| 5. During the past 12 months, how many times have you been approached for a formal collaboration? | ||||
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Principal investigators | 5.9 (3.6) | 5.2 (2.9) | 5.5 (3.1) |
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Research facilitators | 1.0 (1.4) | 5.6 (3.7) | 4.3 (3.8) |
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Overall | 5.1 (3.8) | 5.3 (3.0) | 5.2 (3.3) |
| 6. During the past 12 months, how many times have you contacted someone about a potential collaboration? | ||||
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Principal investigators | 5.1 (3.0) | 3.1 (2.5) | 3.9 (2.8) |
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Research facilitators | 11.0 (12.7) | 19.0 (34.1) | 16.7 (28.6) |
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Overall | 6.1 (5.2) | 7.1 (17.3) | 6.7 (13.9) |
aQuestion 1 results reported in Table 2.