The Role of Ethnic Ties in International Collaboration: the Overseas Chinese Phenomenon
(2007) The Role of Ethnic Ties in International Collaboration: the Overseas Chinese Phenomenon. In Torres-Salinas, Daniel and Moed, Henk F., Eds. Proceedings 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, pp. 427-436, Madrid (Spain).
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Abstract
The term ‘Overseas Chinese Phenomenon’ is used here to refer to the fact that scientists of Chinese descent play an important role in international collaboration between mainland China and the rest of the world. In this paper, we review international collaboration between ethnic Chinese scientists in eight countries – USA, England, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, and South Korea – and colleagues in China itself. Our analysis shows that while ethnic ties play an important role as a bridge between China and the country of residence, policies of the Chinese government with respect to international collaboration and overseas Chinese reinforce the growth of ethnically based co-authorship.
| Keywords: | international science and technology collaboration; overseas Chinese scholars; ethnic ties; government policy; ethnic collaboration index (ECI); knowledge transfer |
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| Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information. > BC. Information in society. |
| ID Code: | 10788 |
| Deposited By: | Rousseau, Ronald |
| Deposited On: | 11 July 2007 |
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