+1
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
It hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure it will: somebody will ask for a
lab that wants to do something that is relatively close of what somebody
else is doing, but using a different approach, or simply wants to work
alone on it.
I personally don't see anything wrong with it: labs are a place where
cooperation should be welcome and suggested, but not mandated and where
duplication of effort could be a sign of parallel research, thus faster
exhaustion of dead-ends, rather than a sign of waste of energy.
In a commercial environment, where time, energy and human resources are
scarce resources, overlap and duplication is rarely a useful thing.
Here, if somebody wants to work on their own things instead of working
with somebody else, the wasted resource would be forcing them to work
together or one adapt somebody else's approach forcefully.
So, labs should never be discriminated because somebody else is already
occupying that functional space.
Of course, fights and balkanization *are* considered harmful and won't
be tolerated, but labs establishment should follow what the PI
needs/wants rather than avoiding duplication of effort.
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