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Learning to manage- Trayss Prime in "Science careers"
"Scientists just don't think about money," said Christina Schütte, presenting at a November workshop on project management in Berlin. "They figure, 'Oh, I'll just let my Ph.D. student do it; that doesn't cost me anything.' " Her audience, about 30 Ph.D. candidates, nodded knowingly. But that is flawed thinking, Schütte says. Perhaps there is a multimillion-dollar piece of scientific equipment in the lab that sits unused because the young researcher is filing invoices. That isn't money saved but opportunity--and very real money--wasted.Schütte, a consultant with ProSciencia and a former research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, gave her lecture during a daylong workshop on research project management that's part of a series called TRAYSS PRIME (shorthand for Training of Young Scientists in Project and Innovation Management). The workshops aim to give young scientists the skills they need to run labs efficiently, manage research projects, and turn scientific discoveries into financial profit--in short, skills young scientists need to survive in a science world in which business and management skills become more important with each passing year.
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