The premise that inclusion of foreign collaborators is for the
purpose of "rounding out grant proposals" is questionable.  Diversity
is not necessarily a plus.  While it may be important to seek new
collaborators in very different places who work on different
populations/environments in order to do comparisons or increase the
potential for generalizing results, I think the vast majority of
researchers who include foreign components in projects already know
(or easily find) the people/laboratories they might wish to include
from encounters at meetings or in the literature.  IF the issue for
China is scholars who don't attend international meetings or only
publish in journals that may not get translated into English, then I
guess the onus is on the Chinese scholar to initiate the contact.

CH

At 03:31 PM 1/27/2010, you wrote:
>Dear List Members,
>
>I am writing at the suggestion of the Society of Research
>Administrators in the hopes of gaining feedback from research
>administrators on the subject of international
>cooperation.  Specifically, how frequently do you seek foreign
>collaborators to round out grant proposals, and how difficult is it
>to find them?  My organization, Anianet (http:/www.anianet.com) is a
>professional network used by thousands of Chinese scholars to better
>connect to their peers in the west.  Our members would like to be
>kept apprised of collaboration opportunities, and we are working to
>identify the most efficient means to enable this.  Understanding the
>extent to which identifying foreign partners is a problem for
>western research administrators would be a big help.
>
>Thank you in advance for your feedback.
>
>Best, Greg
>
>------------------------
>Greg Tananbaum
>Founder and CEO
>Anianet
>
>Anianet: Connecting Scholars Worldwide
>(510) 295-7504
>xxxxxx@anianet.com
>http://www.anianet.com
>
>
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