Chinese researchers returning home: Impacts of international mobility on research collaboration and scientific productivity

Jonkers, Koen; Tijssen, Robert

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-1971-x

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“…In this regard, several authors have indicated that scientific mobility flows could be a factor influencing international collaboration patterns (e.g. Furukawa et al, 2011;Jonkers and Cruz-Castro, 2013;Jonkers and Tijssen, 2008;Murakami, 2014;Scellato et al, 2015).…”

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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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“…(Goyal et al, 2006) The incidence of coauthorships among distant economists has been increasing progressively (Laband and Tollison, 2000). Scientific cooperation across universities are facilitated by English as the common academic language, lower cost of transport and communication and broader availability thereof, the increasing complexity and specialization of research, large scale multinational research programs (Jonkers andTijssen, 2008, Katz andMartin, 1997) and frequent job moves (Cañibano et al, 2008).…”

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Job mobility, peer effects, and research productivity in economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractAnalysing a comprehensive panel dataset of economists working at Austrian, German, and Swiss universities, we investigate how the local environment influences a scientist's research productivity. The research environment varies if a scientist joins another department or if the characteristics of his colleagues change. We find no influence of the research environment on the average researcher's productivity, if we control for individual characteristics. This result indicates that with today's communication technologies spillovers are not bounded locally.JEL classification: I23, J62.

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“…The relevance attributed to mobility in European policies is also patent at country level, particularly in the case of countries with weaker scientific systems. Some of these countries have regarded international mobility as strategic and have devised policies whose goal was to use mobility as an instrument for the country's scientific development (Jonkers and Tijssen, 2008). Policies which encouraged the most talented scientists to conduct doctoral studies or post doctoral research in foreign centres of excellence were expected to enable access to advanced knowledge in fields that were absent or underdeveloped in the home country (Veugelers, 2010).…”

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“…However, less attention has been put on the networks of those scientists who return (Jonkers and Tijssen, 2008). As a result, we still know very little about the role played by mobility on the creation of international relationships that effectively act as vehicles for knowledge access and exchange across country borders.…”

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The Impact of Long-term Scientific Mobility on the Creation of Persistent Knowledge Networks

2013

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International scientific mobility is a strategic element in the science policies of several countries, being often equated with the development of extensive knowledge networks that can be mobilised by the scientists (and their organisations) upon their return. The objective of this paper is to understand whether and in which conditions mobility leads to the development of knowledge links that are long lasting and effectively play a key role in scientists' activities. In conceptual terms, the influence of mobility is explained through the opportunities it provides for temporary co-location in one organisation, and thus for the creation of social, cognitive and organisational proximity between scientists, which are critical for knowledge transmission and which can persist after the individuals draw apart. This conceptual framework supports an empirical analysis of the impact of two types of long term mobility -for training and professional purposes -on the creation of "persistent knowledge networks", in the case of Portuguese scientists. The results show that mobile scientists are more likely to have foreign organisations in their core knowledge network. Even more importantly, they reveal a high incidence of organisations that were part of the scientists' trajectory in these networks, providing some confirmation to the effects of colocation. However, these effects are not always present: the research also identifies some factors -related with personal characteristics, career situation, scientific field, time, geographical distance, motivations to move -that increase the likelihood of network persistence, which differ for the two types of mobility. AcknowledgmentsResearch conducted in the context of the project MOBISCIENCE: Scientists´mobility in Portugal: trajectories and knowledge circulation (PTDC/ESC/64411/2006), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, whose support is gratefully acknowledged.2

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Chinese researchers returning home: Impacts of international mobility on research collaboration and scientific productivity

Cited by 255 publications

References 31 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?

Job mobility, peer effects, and research productivity in economics

The Impact of Long-term Scientific Mobility on the Creation of Persistent Knowledge Networks

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