7. What do you think are some of the ways that collaborative research across institutions can be managed?

First of all, there should be one central manager for the project who coordinates with and for the other participants. The researchers should probably develop a time line for the project to determine when certain milestones are reached. They should also create a schedule so that principal investigators can communicate routinely. If the research project changes direction, they need to figure out how to communicate the change to all of the participants in the group.