Scientific collaboration pt 3

I really enjoyed all these presentations, so I feel it's ok to make a critical remark (cause saying you like something means it's ok to criticize it, right?)

Everyone distinguished between 'intellectual collaboration' and other types. Liberman talked about technicians who get acknowledged, but never cited as authors. Cronin harped on how hard it is to manually mine the acknowledgement sections of large numbers of articles--'manual labor' that I sincerely doubt he did himself.. In response to a question, Small reminisced about the glass blower that worked in his chemistry department. What's my point? No one had any suggestions on how to track the information flow from these 'non-scientists.' They all mentioned them (except for Cronin--so maybe he really did do all his own coding), but no one quite seemed ready to tackle collaboration from a social point of view. Wouldn't it be very interesting to study how information flows thru a lab? Do new lab methods get invented by the h