The balance of knowledge flows

Abramo, Giovanni; D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea; Carloni, Massimiliano

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2018.11.001

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“…Many scholars have investigated the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion, also referred as "knowledge spillovers" and "knowledge flows" (Jaffe, Trajtenberg, & Henderson, 1993;Hicks, Breitzman, Olivastro & Hamilton, 2001;Tijssen, 2001;Maurseth & Verspagen, 2002;Thompson & Fox-Kean, 2005;Sonn & Storper, 2008;Belenzon & Schankerman, 2013;Jaffe & De Rassenfosse, 2017;Abramo, D'Angelo, & Carloni, 2019). A remarkable work of classification of the large amount of studies on the subject was carried out by Cerver-Romero, Ferreira and Fernandes (2018).…”

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The role of geographical proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature

Abramo

D’Angelo

Costa³

2020

Journal of Informetrics

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This paper analyses the influence of geographic distance on knowledge flows, measured through citations to scientific publications. Previous works using the same approach are limited to single disciplines. In this study, we analyse the Italian scientific production in all disciplines matured in the period 2010-2012. To calculate the geographic distances between citing and cited publications, each one is associated with a "prevalent" territory on the basis of the authors' affiliations. The results of the application of a gravity model, estimated using ordinary least squares regression, show that despite the spread of IT, geographic distance continues to be an influential factor in the process of knowledge flows between territories. In particular, the analysis reveals that the effect of geographic distance on knowledge flows is significant at the national level, not negligible at the continental level, but completely irrelevant at the intercontinental level.

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The role of geographical proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature

Abramo

D’Angelo

Costa³

2020

Journal of Informetrics

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“…The results of such studies show that geographical distance is quite significant on the national level, and affects the knowledge flow on the continental level as well, but becomes insignificant on the international, intercontinental level. The role of geographic closeness in knowledge flow can be attributed to the importance of direct personal interactions and social effects, like connections with mentors, the effect of schools in the research field, and on the domestic level of biases in citation practices favouring domestic research [88,101]. Other studies have reported similar results, showing that citation links decrease with increasing distance [83,86].…”

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“…The knowledge flows occur not only between different disciplines; there are significant and important knowledge flows between sciences and areas where their knowledge is consumed. Consequently, researchers of Science of Science have explored such dynamics of knowledge production and consumption from the perspective of the exchange balance of scientific knowledge [88] and also as "food webs" of knowledge; as dynamic networked systems [89].…”

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“…Some other studies have focused on the interaction and balance of knowledge flows between different countries [88,101], paralleling the studies that have explored the disciplinary structures and profiles in different countries. These studies have pointed out the interesting phenomena of obvious localization; despite the global nature of science and pervasive use of IT technologies, science is still in many respects local.…”

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Nature of Science (NOS) Being Acquainted with Science of Science (SoS): Providing a Panoramic Picture of Sciences to Embody NOS for Pre-Service Teachers

Koponen

2021

Education Sciences

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Understanding about nature of science is important topic in science education as well as in pre-service science teacher education. In science education, Nature of Science (NOS), in its different forms of educational scaffoldings, seeks to provide with students an understanding of features of scientific knowledge and science in general, how scientific knowledge changes and becomes accepted, and what factors guide scientific activities. For a science teacher, deep and broad enough picture of sciences is therefore of importance. This study attempts to show that the research field called Science of Science (SoS) can significantly support building such a panoramic picture of sciences, and through that, significantly support NOS. The SoS approaches the structure and dynamics of science quantitatively, using scientific documents (e.g., publications, reports, books and monographs and patent applications) as trails to map the landscape of sciences. It is argued here that SoS may provide material and interesting cases for NOS, and in so doing enrich NOS in a similarly significant way as history, philosophy and sociology of science (HPSS) scholarship has done thus far. This study introduces several themes based on SoS that are of relevance for NOS as they were introduced and discussed in a pre-service science teachers’ course. The feedback from pre-service teachers shows that introducing SoS, with minimal additional philosophical interpretations and discussions, but simply as evidential facts and findings, sparks ideas and views that come very close to NOS themes and topics. Discussions related to nature of science, and specific educational NOS scaffoldings for it, can find a good companion in SoS; the latter providing facts and evidence of thee structure and dynamics of sciences, the former providing perspectives for interpretations.

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“…Abramo and D'Angelo (2018 tracked international spillovers of Italian knowledge production, in over 200 fields, by analyzing publication citations. Abramo, D'Angelo, and Carloni (2019) conceptualized the diffusion of knowledge between countries in terms of a "balance of knowledge flows" (BKF). Several studies investigated, among others, the role of geographic, cognitive and social proximity in knowledge diffusion (Jaffe, Trajtenberg, & Henderson, 1993;Hicks, Breitzman, Olivastro & Hamilton, 2001;Tijssen, 2001;Maurseth & Verspagen, 2002;Ahlgren, Persson, & Tijssen, 2013;Head, Li, & Minondo, 2018;Wuestman, Hoekman, & Frenken, 2019, Abramo, D'Angelo, & Di Costa, 2020a.…”

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On the relation between the degree of internationalization of cited and citing publications: A field level analysis, including and excluding self-citations

Abramo

D’Angelo

Costa³

2021

Journal of Informetrics

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The growing complexity of scientific challenges demands increasingly intense research collaboration, both domestic and international. The resulting trend affects not only the modes of producing new knowledge, but also the way it is disseminated within scientific communities. This paper analyses the relationship between the "degree of internationalization" of a country's scientific production and that of the relevant citing publications. The empirical analysis is based on 2010-2012 Italian publications. Findings show: i) the probability of being cited increases with the degree of internationalization of the research team; ii) totally domestic research teams tend to cite to a greater extent totally domestic publications; iii) vice versa, publications resulting from international collaborations tend to be more cited by totally foreign publications rather than by publications including domestic authors. These results emerge both at overall and at discipline level. Findings might inform research policies geared towards internationalization.

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The balance of knowledge flows

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

The role of geographical proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature

The role of geographical proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature

Nature of Science (NOS) Being Acquainted with Science of Science (SoS): Providing a Panoramic Picture of Sciences to Embody NOS for Pre-Service Teachers

On the relation between the degree of internationalization of cited and citing publications: A field level analysis, including and excluding self-citations

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