Searching for research integration across Europe: a closer look at international and inter-regional collaboration in France

Abstract

Intra-European S&T coauthorships doubled in the last decade, but the collaborative network was surprisingly unaffected. The strongly voluntarist process in the European Union seems far from making collaboration unavoidable or homogeneous. We address the role of frontier regions in the collaborative network, taking France as an example. The study confirms the openness of border regions to their close neighbors abroad, but their level of preference for other regions within the same country is higher. We argue that internationalization/Europeanizationin science develops much more slowly than generally thought, and R&D programs aiming to develop multinational collaboration may be effective in spurring collaborative efforts, without greatly changing the patterns of durable scientific relationships established through producing coauthored articles.

Redes de colaboración y producción científica sudamericana en medicina clínica, ISI Current Contents 2000-2009

“…Otro factor que favorece la colaboración internacional es la existencia de vínculos históricos, culturales, idiomáticos, científi cos o geográfi cos 23,24 . En Sudamérica, estos factores parecen no tener infl uencia, pues incluso es menor que la colaboración con Asia; igualmente, España, Portugal u otros países de Centroamérica, con quienes se tiene importantes vínculos, tienen un papel por detrás de EEUU u otros países europeos.…”

Perfil de colaboración científica del sistema español de educación superior. Análisis de las publicaciones en Web of Science (2002-2011)

“…En los casos de comunidades autónomas con una sola universidad, se advierte la interacción con instituciones de las comunidades vecinas. Esto pone de manifiesto la importancia de la proximidad como un factor que promueve la colaboración, tal como se ha evidenciado en numerosos estudios previos (Liang y Zhu, 2002;Okubo y Zitt, 2004).…”

Regional Scientific Production and Specialization in Europe: The Role of HERD

“…a considerable volume of data, full counting becomes the most convenient solution (van Raan & Tijssen, 1990). Third, the results obtained from the full-count method are simpler to interpret (Okubo & Zitt, 2004).…”

“…In order to cope with the first group of questions, in this section we provide an overview of the distribution of university research for 1998-2004 using an original data set. Some findings at the more detailed level of individual regions and fields over the same period are also presented.…”

“…In these cases, the full-count method was also applied, crediting one publication to each listed region. Regarding the counting method, despite the fractional and full-count methods both being accepted widely and both having advantages and disadvantages (Okubo & Zitt, 2004), we used the full-count method for three main reasons. 2 First, we assumed that "each author, main institution and country listed in the affiliated addresses made a non-negligible contribution" and thus deserve full credit (Tijssen & van Leeuwen, 2003).…”