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VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 2 FALL 2007 Cover Photo: This edition of the Journal of Research Administration is published as SRA International continues to celebrate its 40th anniversary. In this edition, the Journal celebrates the industry, craft and technology of the profession of research administration and its allied disciplines. Like the master woodworker carving instruments that will pluck at the raw center of human existence, the international service of research administrators is a masterful craft that makes possible the ways in which research touches the very core of what it means to be human. The cover photo is used with permission from Fotosearch. Editorial Staff Editor Edward F. Gabriele, MDiv, DMin Senior Associate Editor Bruce Steinert, PhD, CCRA Associate Editors: Timothy Atkinson, EdD Frances Chandler, MA, PhD (cand) Bruce Elliott, PhD Lynda Hardy, PhD Cindy Kiel, JD David Langley, PhD Phillip E. Myers, PhD Mildred Ofosu, PhD Pam Vargas, MBA Manuscript Editors Board Carol Fedor, ND, RN, CCRC John Gillon, JD, MPH Chair: Stephanie Hafner, MA Mary Adams, MTS Jim Hanlon, CHRP Members: Karen Hansen Paula Bistak, RN, MS, CIP Rene Hearns, MPA, CRA Douglas Carroll, MRE, MLIS Daniel Herr, MS, MD, FCCM Marie Cooper, IHM, EdD Elizabeth Holmes, PhD Nathalie Coté, PhD Martin Jamieson, MBA, ACMA John Gillon, JD, MPH Greg Koski, PhD, MD, CPI Darlene Gilson Barbara LoDico, CIP Anita Hartmann, PhD, CIP, CRA Michael McCallister, PhD Frances Jeffries, PhD Jessica Moise Elsa Nadler, EdD Sharon McCarl, MBA, CRA Michael Owen, PhD Sandra Nordahl, CRA Debra Schaller-Demers, MSOM Jennifer Morgan Shambrook, MHA Jackie Solberg, CRA J. Michael Slocum, JD Marianne Ward, CRA Timothy Sparklin, MSW, CIM Daniel Vasgird, PhD, CIP Journal Review Board Paul Waugaman, MPA Chair: “Voice of Experience” Authors Joseph Cosico, MA, CCRC, CRA Elliott Kulakowski, PhD 2007 Coordinator and Senior Writer Members: Lynne Chronister, MPA Rosemary Biscardi, MBA, CCRP Victoria Molfese, PhD Gary Chadwick, PharmD, MPH, CIP J. Michael Slocum, JD Jeffrey Cohen, PhD, CIP Cliff Studman, PhD Philip Cola, MA Paul Waugaman, MPA Sandra Crocker, MBA Erica Ellington, CRA Publishing Coordinator Marianne Elliott, MS, CIP Valerie J. Ducker The Journal of Research Administration Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, 2007 1 The Journal of Research Administration Journal Correspondence Manuscripts or letters to the editor should be submitted to the editor. Submission of a manuscript is considered to be a representation that it is not copyrighted, previously published, or concurrently under consideration for publishing in print or electronic form. 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ISSN No. 1539-1590. 2 Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, 2007 The Journal of Research Administration Volume XXXVIII, Number 2 1. From the Editor’s Desk. 5 Edward Gabriele, DMin 2. Contributors . 7 3. Articles Research Administration as a Living System. 14 Sharon Stewart Cole, PhD Institutional Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research Centers. .28 Sherry Glied, PhD, Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, Allan Formicola, DDS, Cristine Gebbie, DrPH, Elaine L Larson, PhD Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals . 37 Robert Porter, PhD Internal Grant Competitions: A New Opportunity for Research Officers to Build Institutional Funding Portfolios . 44 Rengarajan V. Balaji, MS, MBA, CRA, Christine Knisely, MA, Jack Blazyk, PhD Application of Standard Project Management Tools to Research – A Case Study from a Multi-national Clinical Trial. 51 Peter Gist, PhD, David Langley, PhD Customer-Supplier Roles and Relationships in the Management of Research Projects. .59 Ian M. Carter, PhD Implementing Ethics Policies in Developing Countries: Ploughing On Parched Ground?. 67 Professor Isaac N. Mazonde, José Jackson-Malete, PhD, Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA Administration of an Innovative Program of International Cooperation: Success Across the Pond. 78 Vincent S. Gallicchio, PhD, Dp (hon) Book Review: Managing Scientists: Leadership Strategies in Scientific Research (2004) Alice Sapienza, Wiley-Liss, Inc., 246 pp.. 86 Frances Chandler, MA, PhD (cand) The Journal of Research Administration Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, 2007 3 Law Review: Recent Developments in Research Law. 90 J. Michael Slocum, JD Eric Guttag, JD J. Mark Waxman, JD Jill Williamson, JD Voice of Experience International Research Infrastructure and The Impact of Export Control Regulations. 107 Elliott C. Kulakowski, PhD Lynne Chronister, MPA Victoria Molfese, PhD Michael Slocum, JD Cliff Studman, PhD Paul Waugaman, MPA 4 Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, 2007 The Journal of Research Administration From the Editor’s Desk Many times the most ordinary things present This edition of the us with the most extraordinary moments. Journal of Research That truth came home to me dynamically Administration occurs a short time ago. I was watching a as we draw to a close woodworker install hardwood floors in a the 40th anniversary home being remodeled. Part of the project of the Society of was the rebuilding of the main stairway. Research Administrators With sleeves rolled up for a long and steady International. It strikes stairway task, he singled out each piece me as important that this of solid oak and carefully reviewed every edition of the Journal line. Seasoned and calloused hands gently celebrates the craft, but definitely explored each inch of wood the technology and Dr. Edward Gabriele as if getting to know it personally. As he the industry that is our sawed and carved, it seemed nothing could profession. Our profession is the sometimes distract him. Carefully and with undoubted awkward conjoining of inspiration and knowledge, he cut each piece with exquisite perspiration. We sense the technology that is precision. He sanded over and over again, ours sometimes with that same bead of sweat and then stained each step with a red-gold that prisms the glint behind our eyes when we mastery as if burning the color into each have brought a tedious contract to fruition, piece. He cured each step and carefully or completed a critical proposal review, or fit each precisely into place. As wood is finalized a patent application. Regardless of one of my favorite media, I could not pull the specific task, our profession is itself a hard myself away but found myself drawn more hewn art that requires the masterful care of and more into the mastery that was taking building, and fitting, and staining, and curing. It place. As he began to put the finishing is a process. Sometimes it splinters. But if fired touches on his work, I caught a glimpse of with red-gold dedication, it is a fitting stairway something that arrested my attention. There, that facilitates the traffic of human ideas and while he was staining, sanding and curing, processes and invention. Indeed,