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JRekers

Josephine Rekers

Universitetslektor

JRekers

Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximity

Författare

  • Josephine Rekers
  • Teis Hansen

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.

Avdelning/ar

  • CIRCLE
  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

242-254

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Science and Public Policy

Volym

42

Issue

2

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

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Organisational Change for Innovation and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Health-Care Systems (ICIS)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1471-5430