Opportunities to upgrade the scientific disciplines space

Nestor Gandelman, Osiris Parcero and Flavia Roldán
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Flavia Roldán: Universidad ORT Uruguay. Facultad de Administración y Ciencias Sociales. Departmento de Economía
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No 126, Documentos de Investigación from Universidad ORT Uruguay. Facultad de Administración y Ciencias Sociales

Abstract: Knowledge generated in a given scientific domain may spill over into other close scientific disciplines, thereby improving performance. Using bibliometric data from the SCImago database drawn from a sample of 174 countries, we implement a measure of proximity based on revealed comparative advantage (RCA). Our estimates show that proximity between disciplines positively and significantly affects the RCA growth rate. This impact is larger on disciplines that currently do not have RCA.

Keywords: revealed comparative advantage; revealed proximity; scientific production. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L3 L38 O3 O5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2021-08
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