What Do We Know of the Mobility of Research Scientists and Impact on Scientific Production

Ana Fernández-Zubieta; Cornelia Lawson; Aldo Geuna

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-801396-0.00001-6

What Do We Know of the Mobility of Research Scientists and Impact on Scientific Production

Ana Fernández-Zubieta
, Cornelia Lawson
, Aldo Geuna

IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability

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Abstract

In this chapter we review the literature on the analysis of researcher mobility and productivity, highlighting recent changes in the research system internationalization, intersector mobility, and collaboration and career diversification—which make researcher mobility more relevant for the dynamics of knowledge creation and dissemination. This review reveals that, to date, we still know little about the consequences and motivations of increased mobility for individual researchers. We contribute by presenting a typology of researcher mobility, and considering the relevance of multiple mobility events throughout a researcher career. Finally, we review the modeling problems related to analyzing the effect of mobility on academic performance at the individual level, and suggest various solutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Global Mobility of Research Scientists
Subtitle of host publication	The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why
Editors	Aldo Geuna
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Chapter	1
Pages	1-33
Number of pages	33
ISBN (Print)	9780128013960
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801396-0.00001-6
Publication status	Published - 14 Aug 2015

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Keywords

Academic mobility
Intersector collaboration
Job-to-job mobility
Life course perspective
Productivity

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