Building Alliances and Sharing Knowledge Between Researchers in All Contexts

I was thinking of the group, we're both part of Inspiring Ethics. We have a main person who is coming from a researcher from an NGO's perspective. And I think it's really, really critical to build alliances and share knowledge between researchers in all contexts. Is it so clear, cut that someone is a university researcher and someone's an NGO researcher? Am I making this up a bit?