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The Research Focus of Nations: Economic vs. Altruistic Motivations

Klavans, Richard ; Boyack, Kevin W Hernandez Montoya, Alejandro Raul

PloS one, 2017-01, Vol.12 (1), p.e0169383-e0169383 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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The Research Focus of Nations: Economic vs. Altruistic Motivations
Autor: Klavans, Richard ; Boyack, Kevin W
Hernandez Montoya, Alejandro Raul
Assuntos: Advantages ; Alignment ; Altruism ; Altruism (Human behavior) ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Citations ; Comparative analysis ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Economics ; Entrepreneurs ; Evaluation ; Federal aid to research ; Government aid to research ; Information science ; Informetrics ; Innovations ; Inventors ; Medical research ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Models, Theoretical ; Motivation ; Nations ; Physical Sciences ; Quality of life ; Religion ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Research methods ; Science ; Science and state ; Science policy ; Social Sciences ; Strategic management ; Studies ; Technology transfer ; Tradeoffs
É parte de: PloS one, 2017-01, Vol.12 (1), p.e0169383-e0169383
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Conceptualization: RK KWB.Data curation: RK KWB.Formal analysis: RK KWB.Investigation: RK KWB.Methodology: RK KWB.Resources: RK KWB.Software: RK KWB.Validation: RK KWB.Visualization: RK KWB.Writing – original draft: RK KWB.Writing – review & editing: RK KWB.
Competing Interests: Both authors are employed by a small company, SciTech Strategies, Inc. With regard to this work, they declare there are no conflicts of interest. This work was not funded by any other agency or institution, and there is no product or patent in development that is based on this work. Note also that the authors' industry affiliation does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Descrição: What motivates the research strategies of nations and institutions? We suggest that research primarily serves two masters-altruism and economic growth. Some nations focus more research in altruistic (or non-economic) fields while others focus more research in fields associated with economic growth. What causes this difference? Are there characteristics that would suggest why a nation is more aligned with altruism or economic growth? To answer this question, we have identified nine major fields of research by analyzing the publication activity of 4429 institutions using Scopus data. Two fields of research are clearly altruistic (there is relatively little involvement by industry) and two fields are clearly aligned with economic growth. The altruistic vs. economic nature of nations based on their publication profiles across these fields is correlated with national indicators on wealth, education, capitalism, individualism, power, religion, and language. While previous research has suggested that national research strategy is aligned with national wealth, our analysis shows that national wealth is not highly correlated with the tradeoff between altruistic and economic motives. Instead, the tradeoff is largely captured by a culture of individualism. Accordingly, implications for national research strategies are discussed.
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The Research Focus of Nations: Economic vs. Altruistic Motivations

Klavans, Richard ; Boyack, Kevin W Hernandez Montoya, Alejandro Raul

United States: Public Library of Science

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