Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximity
Författare
Summary, in English
Contributions on interdisciplinary research have so far focused on barriers to such collaborations and strategies for overcoming these. In this paper, we propose that a geographical perspective contributes to understand the formation of successful interdisciplinary research collaborations. The empirical analysis of a centre for clinical cancer research illustrates the importance of considering the role of geographical proximity to collaborators and decision-makers, as well as the co-location of excellent research groups within different fields, in overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary research. We suggest that policies aimed at stimulating lasting interdisciplinary research collaborations should take the distance between collaborators into account.
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
242-254
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Science and Public Policy
Volym
42
Issue
2
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Human Geography
Nyckelord
- interdisciplinary research
- geography
- proximity
- collaboration
- cancer research
- two-community gap
Status
Published
Projekt
- Organisational Change for Innovation and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Health-Care Systems (ICIS)
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1471-5430