Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Wang L. 
Author-Name: Coccia M. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Evolutionary convergence of the patterns of international research collaborations across scientific fields
Abstract:  Frame and Carpenter 1979 analysed the pattern of international  research collaboration among scientific fields in 1970s. Starting from  this pioneering work, this paper investigates international  collaborations over 1997-2012 and compares the critical results with  earlier studies to detect the evolution of collaboration patterns in  different scientific fields. Empirical analysis supports two vital  findings, given by a a relatively stable structure of international  research collaborations over time across different scientific fields; b  a convergent process of collaboration patterns between theoretical and  applied research fields. One important deter-minant of the latter result  might be due to the increasing interdisciplinary nature of research  fields that supports the convergence between basic and applied sciences.
Keywords: Economic History, U.S., Canada, Europe, Economic Development, Innovation and Invention, Technological Change 
Classification-JEL: O31, O39, O10, N00, N31, N33
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2015
Number: 2015-011
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2015/wp2015-011.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 454026
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2015011