cooperation

What is the balance between individual creativity and the process of being partof a large collaboration?

The successful design and construction of a large and complex state-of-the-artdetector requires the creative participation of many many people. It is not the collaboration that is creative, but the sum of its individual members. There are numerous subsystems and sub-subsystems so that people mostly work in small groups, and creatively contribute. The fact that all the systems must fit and work together, and be affordable, necessarily imposes some limits on the creative directions that people can take.