Participations to European Framework Programs of higher education institutions and their association with organizational characteristics

Benedetto Lepori (), Valerio Veglio, Barbara Heller-Schuh, Thomas Scherngell and Michael Barber
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Benedetto Lepori: Universitá della Svizzera Italiana
Valerio Veglio: Universitá della Svizzera Italiana
Barbara Heller-Schuh: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Thomas Scherngell: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Michael Barber: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

Scientometrics, 2015, vol. 105, issue 3, No 42, 2149-2178

Abstract: Abstract This paper aims to analyze patterns of participation of higher education institutions (HEIs) to European Framework Programs (EU-FP) and their association with HEI characteristics, country and geographical effects. We have analyzed a sample of 2235 HEIs in 30 countries in Europe, derived from the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER), which has been matched with data on participations in EU-FPs in 2011 using the EUPRO database. Our findings identified (1) a high concentration of EU-FP participation in a small group of HEIs with high reputation; (2) the participation of non-doctorate awarding HEIs in EU-FPs is very limited despite the fact that they account for a significant share of tertiary student enrolments; (3) the number of participations tends to increase proportionally to organizational size, and is strongly influenced by international reputation; (5) there is limited evidence of significant country effects in EU-FP participations, as well as of the impact of distance from Brussels. We interpret these results as an outcome of the close association between HEI reputation and the network structure of EU-FP participants.

Keywords: Higher education institutions; Reputation; Core-periphery networks; EU Framework programs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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