Roediger-Schluga, Thomas; Barber, Michael J. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
Using a large and novel data source, we study the structure of R&D collaboration net-works in the first five EU … Framework Programmes (FPs). The networks display proper-ties typical for complex networks, including scale-free degree … groups of actors. In particular, large projects appear to have included few of the pivotal actors in the networks studied …