Managing Science and Research

Management of science and research requires a unique skill set that is not the same as general management skills required for other types of businesses. general management theory applies to science and research management, but not enough to meet the specific needs of science and research management. To do this, we assume in this article that the reader is already familiar with the general management principles and approaches. Our goal is to examine the specific needs of the science and management research.

It's important to understand what is good science and how to create an environment that enables the production of science and research to flourish. Important aspects that differ from the general principles of management are:

1) Quality Assurance replaces often address the process of the organization in general. Especially when the problems are not standard and therefore require unique approaches to solving it is very difficult to provide information and indicators of quality performance guarantee.

2) science and research management requires a balance between investment and create benefits for current use. Unless a major effort continually invest in more capacity and growth of existing capacity, management of science and research are in the medium term with a capacity for scientific research increasingly obsolete and unproductive . This requires a model of financial management that does not maximize profits in the short term only, but also takes into account the possibility of building ongoing investment.

3) People carry out scientific and research, usually scarce, and replaces them with considerable investment of time and money. For this reason, preservation and continued development of the experts is to focus on the current business model (this applies to all environments intensive knowledge innovation).

4) The working environment necessary for creative and innovative work, and facilitate teamwork and courage. Performance indicators for these are often difficult to define (which could even be irrelevant). 

But attention to them and do things for the specific type of science and the research is very important to the success of science and research capacity.Added to this is the aspect of "science of administration" where it occurs, namely to ensure the scientific work itself is of good quality and make the best use of available capacity. In general, it is supported by the various conventions that scientists and researchers in specific disciplines to join the professionals.     

However, the various sciences are some similarities and differences that make the maintenance of scientific rigor, when the job is done in more than one of the largest disciplines is very difficult. For this reason, several research resources are used only in selected disciplines, or have barriers between different disciplines and never really have a unique scientific capability, which extends beyond the boundaries of science. Complex and well-connected society in which we live, which is increasingly untenable situation. We must be able to integrate the disciplines to be able to provide relevant and useful, new information, using the best that science offers. Using science in a global, open the most valuable in these situations. We must keep in mind that

* All sciences seek common objective truth or facts or evidence. This common objective of providing background, we can identify some similarities.

* Some legitimate differences in science that we can not forcibly removed a single method across all disciplines.           

Achieving this is not easy. However, there are two sets of characteristics that are common to all branches of science. They can be used in all branches of science to ensure that we are able to integrate our scientific work through the traditional branches of science. Them

* The characteristics of scientific productivity: What are the elements of science that promote its success in the production of knowledge. Knowledge can be generated in a number of ways, but scientists have demonstrated for centuries that when these elements are present and used appropriately, they highlight a certain degree of success that is not otherwise possible.

* Scientific Features Capacity: This is the function that describes the way to exploit the knowledge production capabilities scientific productivity.   

We used these integrated scientific work in many disciplines, applications (especially to solve complex real life problems of strategic management decision-making). They have shown the value of precision, quality and relevance of a multidisciplinary scientific work.