Panel Paper:
"Research Collaboration Cosmpolitianism: Effects on Scientists and Engineers Career Outcomes"
Friday, July 14, 2017
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2:15 PM
Inspiration (Crowne Plaza Brussels - Le Palace)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
The proposed paper uses licensed data from the US National Science Foundation from an NSF grant award to examine the impacts of research and technology collaboration and "collaboration cosmopolitanism" on career outcomes of science, technoklogy, engineering and mathematics (STEM) diplomates, both graduate and undergraduate. The concept "research collaboration cosmopolitanism" (Bozeman and Corley, 2004; Bozeman and Youtie, in press) pertains to the geographic and social distance among research collaborators. The researchers will use the 206 National Survey of College Graduates, which is uniquely useful for this purpose inasmuch as it is the only one of the NSF/NSCG surveys
that included items related to what we refer to as collaboration cosmopolitanism. Our proposed paper asks: (1) what career routes lead to cosmopolitan collaboration versus more parochial collaboration? This question is important because there is a relationship between collaboration cosmopolitanism and productivity (Lee and Bozeman, 2005) and because more cosmopolitan research collaboration may generate systemic STEM capacity (Melkers and Kiopa, 2010). We include race and gender as key dimensions given that such factors influence social exchanges such as collaborations, thus yielding variations in career outcomes. We hypothesize that women and underrepresented minorities will tend to have less cosmopolitan collaboration patterns, due to diminished professionally relevant social capital (Leahey, 2006). Focusing on changes between 2006 and 2010 (using NSCG data from both periods) the study examines impacts of collaboration cosmopolitanism on five distinct measures of career success: number employees supervised, job satisfaction, promotionand salary and skill augmentation.
that included items related to what we refer to as collaboration cosmopolitanism. Our proposed paper asks: (1) what career routes lead to cosmopolitan collaboration versus more parochial collaboration? This question is important because there is a relationship between collaboration cosmopolitanism and productivity (Lee and Bozeman, 2005) and because more cosmopolitan research collaboration may generate systemic STEM capacity (Melkers and Kiopa, 2010). We include race and gender as key dimensions given that such factors influence social exchanges such as collaborations, thus yielding variations in career outcomes. We hypothesize that women and underrepresented minorities will tend to have less cosmopolitan collaboration patterns, due to diminished professionally relevant social capital (Leahey, 2006). Focusing on changes between 2006 and 2010 (using NSCG data from both periods) the study examines impacts of collaboration cosmopolitanism on five distinct measures of career success: number employees supervised, job satisfaction, promotionand salary and skill augmentation.
References:
Bozeman, B., & Corley, E. (2004). Scientists’ collaboration strategies: implications for scientific and technical human capital.
Bozeman, B. and Youtie, J. (In Press). Strength in Numbers: A New Science of Team Science? (Princeton University Press).
Leahey, E. (2006). Gender differences in productivity research specialization as a missing link.
Lee, S., & Bozeman, B. (2005). The impact of research collaboration on scientific productivity.
