Abstract
Intra-European S&T coauthorships doubled in the last decade, but the collaborative network was surprisingly unaffected. The strongly voluntarist process in the European Union seems far from making collaboration unavoidable or homogeneous. We address the role of frontier regions in the collaborative network, taking France as an example. The study confirms the openness of border regions to their close neighbors abroad, but their level of preference for other regions within the same country is higher. We argue that internationalization/ Europeanization in science develops much more slowly than generally thought, and R&D programs aiming to develop multinational collaboration may be effective in spurring collaborative efforts, without greatly changing the patterns of durable scientific relationships established through producing co-authored articles. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.
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