RT journal article
T1 Are organizational and economic proximity driving factors of scientific collaboration? Evidence from Spanish universities, 2001–2010
A1 Fernández Pérez, Ana María
A1 Ferrándiz León, Esther
A1 León Rodríguez, María Dolores
A2 Economía General
K1 Scientific collaborations
K1 Organizational proximity
K1 Economic proximity
K1 Proximity 46 dimensions
K1 Gravity equation
AB This paper aims to explore the effects that organizational and economic proximity have on scientific collaboration (SC) among Spanish universities, which are institutions in a peripheral country to EU-15. The methodology to address our research relies on data from a set of co-authored articles indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) provided by Web of Science (WoS) and published between 2001 and 2010 by 903 pairs of collaborating universities. This paper contributes to the existing literature in several ways. First, we aim to study how Spanish academic SC evolved in the period 2001-2010 in order to identify which universities were more prone to collaborate. Second, we analyse how collaboration across distance has evolved over time, considering two periods: 2001-2005 and 2006- 2010. Finally, we put forward an econometric model to analyse how geographical, cognitive, institutional, social, organizational and economic proximity affect SC. Among other results, we find that differences in the size of the collaborating universities are not relevant to explaining academic SC, while disparities in ages and international vocation affect SC. With regard to economic proximity, differences in GDP are not relevant, while differences  in  financial  funding  suggest  a  stronger  rate  of  collaboration  among universities with different levels of funding. Building on our results, we provide some policy implications.
PB Springer
SN 1588-2861
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34595
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34595
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026