1. Lessons from
Neuroscience…
Challenges of Transatlantic R&D
collaborations
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5. International Decade of
the Mind Project
• Science Magazine Manifesto
• 2007 Washington, 2009 Berlin, 2010 Singapore
• “Big Data” Recognition
• $4B new US R&D proposed during 2008 election
cycle
• International Collaboration Required: “Big Science”
• Existing cross fertilization and collaborations
• The Fourth Estate
• Social Networking
• The Great Recession: Plusses and Minuses

6. Overarching Challenges
• Governing Law
• Technology transfer/Intellectual Property
• Academic organizational heterogeneity
• Soft Skill Differences/Training

7. Transatlantic Soft-Skills
• Grantsmanship: NIH/NSF versus Framework
• “Table manners”
• Publications/Editorial
• Ethics (especially Human Use)
• IP
• Mentorship
• Teaching/Grading
• Compliance law
• Getting into graduate school, securing a postdoc
and getting a job

8. Take Home:
• EU-North American Trainees End Up on both sides of
The Pond
• We typically only train them to succeed in our own
home environment
• Is that preparing them for a global scientific
market?