Can the centre–periphery model explain patterns of international scientific collaboration among threshold and industrialised countries? The case of South Africa and Germany

Schubert, Torben; Sooryamoorthy, R.

doi:10.1007/s11192-009-0074-2

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“…Differences in economic resources among geographic areas (economic distance) may determine the spatial patterns in SC, as derived from the centre-periphery hypothesis (Schott, 1998;Schubert and Sooryamoorthy, 2010) applied to research collaboration (Acosta et al, 2011a). According to this literature, scientists in peripheral countries are willing to collaborate with core countries to gain access to resources, while core areas seeking complementarities (Hwang, 2008;Sonnenwald, 2007).…”

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Proximity dimensions and scientific collaboration among academic institutions in Europe: The closer, the better?

2016

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ABSTRACT:The main objective of this paper is to examine the effect of various proximity dimensions (geographical, cognitive, institutional, organizational, social and economic) on academic scientific collaborations (SC). The data to capture SC consists of a set of co-authored articles published between 2006 and 2010 by universities located in EU-15, indexed by the Science Citation Index (SCI Expanded) of the ISI Web of Science database. We link this data to institution-level information provided by the EUMIDA dataset. Our final sample consists of 240,495 co-authored articles from 690 European universities that featured in both datasets. Additionally, we also retrieved data on regional R&D funding from Eurostat. Based on the gravital equation, we estimate several econometrics models using aggregated data from all disciplines as well as separated data for Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences and Physics & Astronomy. Our results provide evidence on the substantial role of geographical, cognitive, institutional, social and economic distance in shaping scientific collaboration, while the effect of organizational proximity seems to be weaker. Some differences on the relevance of these factors arise at discipline level.

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Proximity dimensions and scientific collaboration among academic institutions in Europe: The closer, the better?

2016

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“…We need to turn to the international literature on collaboration to find suitable references. In this regard, the centre-periphery discussion at the international level (Schott, 1998;Schubert and Sooryamoorthy, 2010) provides some clues on whether differences in economic development between areas may determine the patterns of scientific collaboration.…”

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Factors affecting inter-regional academic scientific collaboration within Europe: the role of economic distance

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This paper offers some insights into scientific collaboration (SC) at the regional level by drawing upon two lines of inquiry. The first involves examining the spatial patterns of university SC across the EU-15 (all countries belonging to the European Union between 1995 and 2004). The second consists of extending the current empirical analysis on regional SC collaboration by including the economic distance between regions in the model along with other variables suggested by the extant literature. The methodology relies on co-publications as a proxy for academic collaboration, and in order to test the relevance of economic distance for the intensity of collaboration between regions, we put forward a gravity equation. The descriptive results show that there are significant differences in the production of academic scientific papers between less-favoured regions and core regions. However, the intensity of collaboration is similar in both types of regions. Our econometric findings suggest that differences in scientific resources (as measured by R&D expenditure) between regions are relevant in explaining academic scientific collaborations, while distance in the level of development (as measured by per capita GDP) does not appear to play any significant role. Nevertheless, other variables in the analysis, including geographical distance, specialization and cultural factors, do yield significant estimated coefficients, and this is consistent with the previous literature on regional SC.

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“…Researchers collaborate with each other for various reasons. This can be to improve their visibility and recognition (Narin et al 1991), to utilise expensive equipment that is not under their control (Meadows and O'Connor 1971;Schubert and Sooryamoorthy 2010), or to acquire expertise and new ideas (Beaver and Rosen 1978) needed for research.…”

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“…Onyancha and Maluleka (2011) found out that knowledge production through collaborative research among sub-Saharan African countries is minimal. Schubert and Sooryamoorthy (2010) showed that "a theory of scientific collaboration building on the notion of marginality and centre-periphery can explain many facets of South African-German collaboration, where South Africa is a semi-peripheral region, a centre for the periphery, and a periphery for the centre".…”

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Research emphasis and collaboration in Africa

Pouris

2013

Scientometrics

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Scientific co-authorship of African researchers has become a fashionable topic in the recent scientometric literature. Researchers are investigating the effects, modes, dynamics and motives of collaboration in a continental research system which is in an embryonic stage and in different stages of development from country to country. In this article we attempt to provide some additional evidence by examining both patterns of collaboration at country and continental levels and the scientific disciplines emphasised. Our findings indicate that the continent's research emphasises medical and natural resources disciplines to the detriment of disciplines supporting knowledge based economies and societies. Furthermore, we identify that the collaborative patterns in Africa are substantial higher than in the rest of the world. A number of questions related to research collaboration and its effects are raised.

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Can the centre–periphery model explain patterns of international scientific collaboration among threshold and industrialised countries? The case of South Africa and Germany

Cited by 74 publications

References 29 publications

Proximity dimensions and scientific collaboration among academic institutions in Europe: The closer, the better?

Proximity dimensions and scientific collaboration among academic institutions in Europe: The closer, the better?

Factors affecting inter-regional academic scientific collaboration within Europe: the role of economic distance

Research emphasis and collaboration in Africa

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