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| Question | Alignment | Non-Alignment | Other Observations |
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| How does your institution align with Regional Partners? | Strongly where funding opportunities exist, yet also see benefits impact; Work with broad range of stakeholders | Apart from Swansea no other Welsh Institutions are involved; Within Wales WAG Policy makes alignment | |
| How is your institution changing to facilitate collaboration? | Strategic, multi-disciplinary partnerships | Within Wales there was a mix of alignment to Public Sector Research focus versus multinational enterprise inward investment | Rice’s research collaboration Building and Swansea’s ILS I&II and CNH |
| How is collaboration embedded in your strategic plan? | Institutional endorsement of programs that facilitate collaboration | On both sides by institution endorsing and funding of research infrastructure project; In Wales via building on regionally funded projects | |
| What do you see the role of government as being? | Facilitator | Within Wales it was seen that is a thicker layer of bureaucracy | Within Texas, there was a stronger sense of government enabling vs. imposing |
| Is the regional cluster growing and in the right direction? | Yes, with plenty of scope | Yes, with the funding of Infrastructure for R&D |
| Question | Alignment | Non-Alignment | Other Observations |
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| How do you work with other regional stakeholders? | Via International, National and Regional Research Funders, Companies and Academic Research Initiatives | Within Texas, it was highlighted that they are better at translating both research and commercial potential to stakeholders | |
| Is your institution responsive to the collaboration agenda? | Yes | Within Wales, it was seen that in some cases prodding had to be done at the Senior Management Level | Slight misalignment on the Welsh side between what Management wants and what Researchers want |
| Do you see collaboration as a strategic imperative for your institutions? | Absolutely | In Wales it was seen to be a way to develop indirect research funds that otherwise might | Key for both sides in the development of research and funding |
| What do you see the role of government as being? | Funder | In Wales, Government tries to operate outside its areas of expertise | On both sides government was seen as the funder through Research Councils and other mechanisms both regionally and nationally |
| Is the regional cluster growing and in the right direction? | YesAll highlighted the respective development stage of the clusters | On the Welsh side it was seen that working with Texas would allow for their cluster to develop faster. |
In addition to the specific issues explored through the core questions asked in the semi-structured interviews, a number of participants made comments and observations of interest to the study. These include the following:
How started: UK government was looking for a high density of R&D in the Medical Sector and were reviewing the Boston Areas, they were convinced to also look at Houston where the Texas Medical Center, the US largest Research and Medical facility.
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