Managing research teams
Managing European contracts
Managing International Cooperation
Gérard Huet INRIA
Managing a research team
Researchers don’t like management Researchers hate to be managed
Remember: you are the team leader, not the boss Your only management tool is enthusiasm
Talents in cutting edge research are rare to find Researchers are not like peas in a pod
Shopping for a specialist versus buying a ton of brick Anticipating recruitments with the networking effect Cost statements for personnel, time sheets
Managing European contracts
• Understanding the rules, letter vs spirit
• Loopholes, catch22, legislation slack, creativity
• What can you charge the grant agency
• Negociating overhead and salary scales
• Your duties and rights as coordinator
• Matching your team goals with a programme
• Forming a consortium
• The 10% final payment, how to overlap
Managing European contracts II
• The Consortium coordinator
• The main partners
• The subcontractors
• The geographical balance
• IP: Who owns what, before, and after
• The workplan, Q0 etc. How to decouple events
• The deliverables
• The review, how to prepare it, experts, po
Managing cooperations
• Competitors vs complementary partners
• Know your partners de visu, visit their site
• How to cut the pie
• The networking effect: Metcalfe law
• Cross-hiring within the consortium vs inbreeding
• Cross-hiring within your own organisation
• Applying fluid mechanics to management
• How to communicate efficiently
Euro-India opportunities
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Comparable size and structure
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Comparable diversity
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Comparable problems
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Similar traditions of respect for education
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Similar traditions of democracy
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Complementary resources and infrastructures
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