MACRO: (How) are economic and legal infrastructures said to shape, enable and constrain collaboration at this stage of the research process? What incentives and benefits are said to be part of collaboration at this stage of the research process?

AO: The analysts mention that “in a globalized world” demands for cross-national collaborations grow. They also note decrease in funding and a need to coordinate different funding sources.

AO: Analysts are interested in how “sustainable” such transdisciplinary research collaboratives are because after the funding ends then critics say that the network collapses.