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Collaboratories that support science and engineering have become more and more common. Unfortunately, many of them experience serious difficulties. Those that involve inter-cultural collaboration are especially problematic. We have identified more than 200 such projects, and have formulated a series of working hypotheses about what factors are associated with success and failure. In this article we review these factors, focusing in particular on those aspects that arise in inter-cultural collaborations.
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Olson, G.M., Luo, A. (2007). Intra- and Inter-cultural Collaboration in Science and Engineering. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_19
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