Advantage of collocating research facilities the administrator's point of view

✍ Scribed by H.-M. Spilker; C. Blomeyer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 517 KB
• Volume: 204
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-4526(94)00237-p

✦ Synopsis

Research facilities are collocated in order to create a maximum of synergy. This also requires a close cooperation of the administrations concerned leading to advantages, in particular with regards to infrastructure and cost effectiveness. Faced with the specificities of the research facilities involved, administrators feel challenged to find appropriate solutions. The successive establishment of research institutes on the Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble is described. Forms and content of administrative collaboration between the Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility are analysed, where collocation has led to intensive cooperation.