Opinion: The Value of Collaborations in the Emerging and Developing World

Scientists can foster new talent, find new funding options, and tap into business opportunities by forging relationships between researchers in emerging, developing and developed nations.

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There is no doubt that science is more advanced in Western institutions, followed by a few Asian countries. There is, at the same time, a plethora of skills, talents, and resources waiting to be explored in the emerging and developing world that could contribute to science innovation. The following are few ideas on how to forge such collaborations.

A number of research areas, such as infectious disease, rare conditions, and personalized medicine, need a tight collaboration between the scientists in developed, emerging, and developing countries. These diseases are more prominent in the emerging and developing world, and scientists there have developed unique skills to collect data and bank samples. For instance, many vaccines against viruses such as Ebola were jointly created by scientists of the developed world who provided the know-how and researchers in the emerging world who tested them on patients.

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