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Global Mobility of Research Scientists

The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why

1st Edition - August 3, 2015

Editor: Aldo Geuna

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Global Mobility of Research Scientists: The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why brings together information on how the localization and mobility of academic researchers… Read more

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Global Mobility of Research Scientists: The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why

brings together information on how the localization and mobility of academic researchers contributes to the production of knowledge.

The text answers several questions, including "what characterizes nationally and internationally mobile researchers?" and "what are the individual and social implications of increased mobility of research scientists?"

Eight independent, but coordinated chapters address these and other questions, drawing on a set of newly developed databases covering 30 countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and China, among others.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. What Do We Know of the Mobility of Research Scientists and Impact on Scientific Production
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Why Are We Increasingly Interested in Researcher Mobility?
- 3. Mobility from a Life Course Perspective
- 4. The Challenges Related to Analyzing Researcher Mobility within a Life Course Perspective
- 5. Conclusion
Chapter 2. International Mobility of Research Scientists: Lessons from GlobSci
- 1. Introduction
- 2. International Mobility Patterns
- 3. Return
- 4. International Mobility and Research Networks
- 5. International Mobility and Performance
- 6. Conclusions
Chapter 3. International Careers of Researchers in Biomedical Sciences: A Comparison of the US and the UK
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Careers and Mobility in Biomedical Science
- 3. International Mobility, Career Progression, and Research Performance
- 4. Data Description
- 5. Model and Results
- 6. Conclusion
- Annex 1: Data Construction and Response Analysis
- Annex 2: Disambiguation Strategies for Publications
- Annex 3: Top-ranked Institutions
- Annex 4: Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 4. Mobility and Productivity of Research Scientists
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Effect of Researcher Mobility on Researcher Productivity
- 3. Empirical Analysis
- 4. Results
- 5. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Who Leaves and Who Stays? Evidence on Immigrant Selection from the Collapse of Soviet Science
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. The Migration Decision
- 4. Data
- 5. Analysis of Immigrant Selection
- 6. Discussion
Chapter 6. China’s “Great Leap Forward” in Science and Engineering
- 1. China Becomes a Higher Education Powerhouse
- 2. China Becomes a Research Giant
- 3. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Which Factors Influence the International Mobility of Research Scientists?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Review of the Literature
- 3. A Framework for Analyzing the Determinants of Scientist Mobility Flows
- 4. Data Sources
- 5. Empirical Results
- 6. Conclusions and Further Remarks
Chapter 8. Destinations of Mobile European Researchers: Europe versus the United States
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Review of the Evidence on Motivations Affecting the International Mobility of Researchers
- 3. Conceptual Framework and Research Questions
- 4. Data: The MORE Survey
- 5. Results
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendix 1: The MORE Survey and OUR Sample
Chapter 9. Appointment, Promotion, and Mobility of Bioscience Researchers in Japan
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature Review
- 3. The Japanese Employment and Science System
- 4. Data and Descriptive Statistics
- 5. Regression Analysis
- 6. Conclusions
Chapter 10. Moving Out of Academic Research: Why Do Scientists Stop Doing Research?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Career Path and Exit from Academic Research Career
- 3. Determinants of Exit
- 4. Context of Japanese Academia
- 5. Data Description and Variable Measurement
- 6. Econometric Model and Results
- 7. Conclusions
Index