Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the operative meaning of collaboration in a life science network. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through participatory observations and interviews between 2014 and 2015. The data presented were derived from field notes from participant observations, interviews and documents within a life science network in the Oresund region (southern part of Sweden and the Copenhagen area). Findings The findings suggest that collaboration within the life science network should be viewed as a lively, organizational assembly in the process of becoming, in contrast to the idea that it is operating on the basis of organic principles. Collaboration thus could be viewed as consisting of self-subsistent parts (participants and organizations) that are detached and plugged into different collaborative networks. Originality/value In the context of the emerging idea of re-building the state welfare system with the economic support of producing and selling knowledge, there seems to be a growing interest, especially from the point of view of policymakers, in the phenomenon of collaboration. This paper offers exclusive ethnographic illustrations into the heterogeneity of collaboration.

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生命科学网络中的合作现象

目的本文的目的是概述生命科学网络中协作的可操作含义。设计/方法/方法数据是通过2014年至2015年间的参与性观察和访谈收集的。所提供的数据来自于厄勒海峡地区（瑞典和哥本哈根的南部）生命科学网络中参与者的观察，访谈和文献的实地记录。区域）。调查结果调查结果表明，生命科学网络内的协作应被视为正在形成过程中的活跃的组织集会，这与基于有机原理进行运作的想法形成鲜明对比。因此，协作可以看作是由独立存在的部分（参与者和组织）组成的，它们独立并插入到不同的协作网络中。独创性/价值在产生和销售知识的经济支持下重建国家福利体系的新想法的背景下，尤其是从政策制定者的角度看来，人们对合作现象越来越感兴趣。 。本文提供了关于异质合作的独家民族志插图。