全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Which factors influence international research collaboration in Africa?

G2TT

来源类型	Book Section
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1007/978-3-030-14857-7_23
ISSN	9783030148560
	Which factors influence international research collaboration in Africa?
	Confraria, Hugo; Swart, Charl; Blanckenberg, Jaco
发表日期	2019-06-14
出版者	Springer
出版年	2019
页码	243-255
语种	英语
摘要	It is commonly accepted that international research collaboration improves scientists’ abilities and performance. In this chapter, we investigate the question: what are the characteristics of African researchers who collaborate more often with international partners?. Data are taken from Web of Science and a survey that collected detailed information about the individual characteristics of 2954 African researchers in 42 African countries. We use descriptive statistics and an econometric model to discern the characteristics that are associated with higher levels of collaboration with researchers outside Africa. Overall, our results suggest that, on average, researchers who did their doctoral studies outside of Africa, had the opportunity to move abroad (over the past 3 years) and received a higher share of international funding (over the past 3 years), are more likely to collaborate more frequently with researchers outside of Africa. In our conclusions, we discuss that beyond increasing the availability of mobility scholarships and the amount of research funding for African scientists, policymakers and international organisations should also think in incentives to keep long-term research interactions and try to avoid unequal partnerships.
特色分类	H Social Sciences
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/84605/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/469220
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Confraria, Hugo,Swart, Charl,Blanckenberg, Jaco. Which factors influence international research collaboration in Africa?. 2019.