The Geography of Scientific Collaboration

"The book is authored by scholars in economics and geography, but the book will be of interest to students and scholars in other disciplines as well. While the book makes only a few references to the philosophical literature on collaboration in science, philosophers of science in practice are likely to find the book enlightening. Philosophers will perhaps be particularly interested in the quantitative data on international collaboration reported in Chapter 4 and the extensive presentation in Chapter 6 of scientific collaboration policies in the USA, the EU, and China." -Line Edslev Andersen, Metascience

Auteur

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 institutionsincluding the European Commission, World Bank, and UNDPon regional development and research policy.

Dorota Celiska-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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu
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