Condicionantes da colaboração acadêmica no sistema científico brasileiro

Abstract

The meaning of this work is to understand the influence of social, institutional, organizational, cognitive and geographic proximity in the collaborative context among Brazilian researchers in the period between 2009 and 2017. Empirical works discuss the role of proximity in developed countries, but there is a lack of works that address the theme in developing countries. Furthermore, although there is a plenty of papers about proximities, most of these studies do not consider all these dimensions simultaneously. For the construction of the network of researchers and the construction of proximity indicators, data obtained from the Lattes Platform of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) were used. The results show that all productivity dimensions are relevant to explain the publications of research pairs in Brazil. Specifically, the fact of being in the same state, belonging to the same institution and the same organization has a positive association with the number of publications. Furthermore, previous and ongoing interactions between researchers are also relevant constraints