caa a22 4500 445348100 CHVBK 20180317142835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-010-0305-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-010-0305-6 Factors affecting inter-regional academic scientific collaboration within Europe: the role of economic distance [Elektronische Daten] [Manuel Acosta, Daniel Coronado, Esther Ferrándiz, M. León] This paper offers some insights into scientific collaboration (SC) at the regional level by drawing upon two lines of inquiry. The first involves examining the spatial patterns of university SC across the EU-15 (all countries belonging to the European Union between 1995 and 2004). The second consists of extending the current empirical analysis on regional SC collaboration by including the economic distance between regions in the model along with other variables suggested by the extant literature. The methodology relies on co-publications as a proxy for academic collaboration, and in order to test the relevance of economic distance for the intensity of collaboration between regions, we put forward a gravity equation. The descriptive results show that there are significant differences in the production of academic scientific papers between less-favoured regions and core regions. However, the intensity of collaboration is similar in both types of regions. Our econometric findings suggest that differences in scientific resources (as measured by R&D expenditure) between regions are relevant in explaining academic scientific collaborations, while distance in the level of development (as measured by per capita GDP) does not appear to play any significant role. Nevertheless, other variables in the analysis, including geographical distance, specialization and cultural factors, do yield significant estimated coefficients, and this is consistent with the previous literature on regional SC. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2010 Economic distance nationallicence Academic scientific collaboration nationallicence Gravity equation nationallicence Co-authorship nationallicence Acosta Manuel Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut Coronado Daniel Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut Ferrándiz Esther Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut León M. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/1(2011-04-01), 63-74 0138-9130 87:1<63 2011 87 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0305-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0305-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Acosta Manuel Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Coronado Daniel Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ferrándiz Esther Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- León M. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cádiz, c/Duque de Nájera, 8, 11002, Cadiz, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/1(2011-04-01), 63-74 0138-9130 87:1<63 2011 87 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer