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来源

INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW,Vol.40,Issue5,P.500-529

语言

英文

关键字

regional science history; social networks in regional science; scholarly collaboration; regional science in developing countries; Geoffrey J. D. Hewings; ECONOMIC-IMPACTS; PUBLICATION PATTERNS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SAO-PAULO; INEQUALITY; GROWTH; CONVERGENCE; P

作者单位

[Haddad, Eduardo A.; Sidone, Otavio J. G.] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. [Mena-Chalco, Jesus P.] Fed Univ ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil. Haddad, EA (reprint author), NEREUS Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Econ FEA, Av Prof Luciano Gualberto 908,FEA 2, BR-05508010 Sao Paulo, Brazil. E-Mail: ehaddad@usp.br

摘要

The Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2014. Since then, REAL has become one of the leading research centers of regional science worldwide. In this article, we describe the scholarly network involving REAL's alumni working in academia in Brazil. We analyze the patterns of research collaboration among around fifty Brazilian researchers whose main activities are related to academic institutions in Brazil. The Brazilian REAL network has shown to be an interesting case study that reflects the pattern of evolving collaboration networks in scientifically emerging economies. The expansion of the REAL scientific collaboration network in Brazil emerges as a relevant mechanism for both a qualitative leap in national scientific production in regional science and for the dissemination of knowledge in peripheral regions of the country. Conducted under the leadership of Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, it has helped to develop regional science in the country still further. This case study serves as an example of knowledge diffusion and of the role played by key researchers in the evolution of this network, providing a contribution to the science of research and innovation.