The Geography of Scientific Collaboration

ISBN-13: 9780367665111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Agnieszka Olechnicka; Adam Ploszaj; Dorota Celińska-Janowicz

Opis

This book offers a complex analysis of the spatial aspects of scientific collaboration, addressing the topic at a number of levels: individual (personal), organizational, urban, regional, national, and international. Spatial patterns of scientific collaboration are analysed along with their determinants and consequences.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Places and spaces of science; 2: Scientists working together; 3: Measuring scholarly collaboration in space; 4: Spatial patterns of scientific collaboration; 5: Theoretical approaches to scientific collaboration from a spatial perspective; 6: Scientific collaboration policy; 7: Conclusions

O autorze

Agnieszka Olechnicka is an assistant professor and director at the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG), University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the secretary of the Polish Section of Regional Studies Association.

Adam Ploszaj is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Adam frequently advises national and international institutions—including the European Commission, World Bank, and UNDP—on regional development and research policy.

Dorota Celińska-Janowicz holds the position of counsellor for student affairs and assistant professor at the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG), University of Warsaw, Poland. She is also the treasurer of the Polish Section of Regional Studies Association.