Various forms of interaction during the process of research and innovation constitute a global network of knowledge … generation and diffusion. Countries and their research organizations and individual scientists need to be embedded in this … science: research collaboration and scientist mobility. We thereby focus on the motives and determinants to collaborate or …

are needs for complementary ressources in an increasingly specialized world. Further, information and communication … technologies contributed to flatten the world for intense, yet spatially distant collaboration. Based on the large scale analysis … by a factor of around 50-100. This behaviour has inevitable consequences for the design of research collaboration …