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dc.contributor.author | Barnard, Helena![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Cowan, R.![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Muller, M.![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-06T11:29:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-06T11:29:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | |
dc.description.abstract | Do world-leading researchers from developing countries contribute to upgrading locally, or do they disengage from the local context? The paper investigates the scientific collaborations of university-based science and technology researchers in the database of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), and analyses the co-authorships of researchers who were ranked by the NRF during the 2001–2007 period. To establish the extent to which a researcher can access knowledge outside the South African academic science and technology research community, and share it inside that community, we develop a measure of ‘gatekeeping’. The evidence suggests that there is not a local/global trade-off in knowledge creation in academia in the developing world, and that the world-leading researchers in developing countries may play an especially important role as conduits of new knowledge in their country | en |
dc.description.librarian | nf2012 | en |
dc.description.uri | http://www.elsevier.com/locate/respol | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | H. Barnard, R. Cowan & M. Muller, Global excellence at the expense of local diffusion, or a bridge between two worlds? Research in science and technology in the developing world, Research Policy, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 756-769, (2012), doi:1 0.1016/j.respol.2011.12.002 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0048-7333 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-7625 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1016/j.respol.2011.12.002 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19124 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | en_US |
dc.subject | Science and technology | en |
dc.subject | Scientific collaborations | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Scientists -- Developing countries | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Education, Higher -- Research -- Developing countries | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | National Research Foundation (South Africa) -- Databases | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Copyright (Joint tenancy) -- Developing countries | en |
dc.title | Global excellence at the expense of local diffusion, or a bridge between two worlds? Research in science and technology in the developing world | en |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en |