The main goal of our research is to look in depth at the relationship between geographical and institutional distance in research collaborations: we ask whether such relationship is influenced by the importance and ambition of the research project and by the different behaviour of different institutions. We analyse a database including the publications done by the Italian biotech firms from 2003 to 2005; the institutions to which the authors of the publications belong are registered and classified in four categories (firms, universities, hospitals and research centres); their localization is registered too. We find that, considering the papers that receive few citations (which may be considered as results of project of limited scientific relevance or quality), the relationship between geographical and institutional distance is inverse; among more cited papers the relationship is direct. On another side, considering the behaviour of different institutions, we observe an inverse relationship between spatial and institutional distance for firms, universities and research centres, a direct relationship for hospitals.
The effect of research quality and different institutional behaviour on the relationship between institutional and geographic distance in scientific publications
D'AMORE, ROSAMARIA;IORIO, Roberto;
2016-01-01
Abstract
The main goal of our research is to look in depth at the relationship between geographical and institutional distance in research collaborations: we ask whether such relationship is influenced by the importance and ambition of the research project and by the different behaviour of different institutions. We analyse a database including the publications done by the Italian biotech firms from 2003 to 2005; the institutions to which the authors of the publications belong are registered and classified in four categories (firms, universities, hospitals and research centres); their localization is registered too. We find that, considering the papers that receive few citations (which may be considered as results of project of limited scientific relevance or quality), the relationship between geographical and institutional distance is inverse; among more cited papers the relationship is direct. On another side, considering the behaviour of different institutions, we observe an inverse relationship between spatial and institutional distance for firms, universities and research centres, a direct relationship for hospitals.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
