Collaborative program off to ill-defined start

A program designed to get regional and research-intensive universities working together is hitby a lack of definition.

The federal government needs first to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive before the nuts and bolts of a new collaborative research program can be ironed out. The $52 million Collaborative Research Networks program is intended to foster mutually beneficial research links between smaller, less research-intensive, regional universities and city-based research powerhouses. Under the program, the regional university would act as the project leader, but funding would also be available to the partner institution to enable the linkage. It formulates part...