Scientific collaboration is often perceived as a joint global process that involves researchers worldwide, regardless of their place of work and residence. Globalization of science, in this respect, implies that collaboration among scientists takes place along the lines of common topics and...

This paper analyses the spatial configurations of knowledge networks and their overlap with spatial concentrations, such as urban agglomerations. It proposes a typology of spatial concentrations in knowledge networks, and uses data from academic coauthorships in the field of optical technology...

Scientific collaboration, in most cases, is seen a joint action on a global scale that involves researchers from not just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic communities build up especially in the case of analytical modes...

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand im Rahmen des von der DFG geförderten Forschungsprojekts "Leistungsorientierte Ressourcensteuerung und Anreizstrukturen in Hochschulsystemen im internationalen und interregionalen Vergleich" an der Abteilung Wirtschaftsgeographie des Geographischen Instituts der...