than to other members of the network. In this paper, we identify such communities in the European R&D network using data on …

methodological tools assessing network characteristics at the dyadic level are lacking for aggregated networks (such as the network … knowledge flows. To do so we first define a new measure to assess 'network proximity' at the level of the regional dyad, based … European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom). The studied network is then composed of all the …

emigration) were countries represents network nodes, and migration between countries represents directed links. We compose a … the migration to/from a country and degree represents the connectivity of a country to the global migration network … as global phenomena. Our findings suggest that source countries network has homogeneous distribution of weight and of …

just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic …