Coopetition

Collaborative education supports team work in which everybody participates equally. However, it is also an excellent environment to promote areas where we are the most competitive experts. That is why we should mention coopetition.

Coopetition is a neologism for collaborative competition. It happens when schools work together on projects where they do not believe they have competitive advantage and where they can share common costs. In other areas schools may remain highly competitive. For this system to work properly, schools need to define where they are working together and where they are competing (Wikipedia, 2010). For example, a group of veterinary schools can work together on undergraduate veterinary parasitology course while remaining highly competitive in the area of postgraduate parasitology education and research.