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Research collaboration between Europe and Latin America : mapping and understanding partnership

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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 196 pages
Poids : 417 g
Dimensions : 19cm X 24cm
ISBN : 978-2-8130-0124-5
EAN : 9782813001245

Research collaboration between Europe and Latin America

mapping and understanding partnership


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Broché 196 pages

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International collaboration has become increasingly important in carrying out research activities. This book, written by a large group of scholars from Europe and Latin America, maps, analyses and discusses research collaboration between the two continents during the last twenty years. The empirical material underlines the richness and the variety of the links that bind the two continents, well beyond the simplified views of science, either as the brainchild of global networking or as a result of dependence. The book also develops an innovative methodological approach, combining bibliometric analysis, social surveying, in-depth interviews, and a careful analysis of research programmes and policies. While arguing that the asymmetry of relations that once existed in cooperation has turned into a more equal partnership between the two continents, it deciphers some of the reasons behind this more balanced cooperation. It also challenges the view of science as a global self-organising system through collective action at the level of researchers themselves. On the contrary, the importance of policy, institutions, and previously developed research is highlighted and recognised.

Biographie

Jacques Gaillard and Rigas Arvanitis are senior researchers, specialising on Science studies and Research policy at the Centre Population et Développement (Ceped), a unit of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Paris, France. They are also members of the Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation et Société (IFRIS).

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