Does country-level R&D efficiency benefit from the collaboration network structure?

Research Policy

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 770-784

  Guan, Jiancheng ^a   Zuo, Kairui ^a   Chen, Kaihua ^b   Yam, Richard C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Abetweenness centrality; Closeness centrality; Collaboration network; Country level R D efficiency; Degree centrality; Structural holes

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

ABETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; CLOSENESS CENTRALITIES; COLLABORATION NETWORK; DEGREE CENTRALITY; STRUCTURAL HOLES;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84959420889     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2016.01.003     Document Type: Article

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