Global Science Networks in Times of Crisis

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Abstract

Collaboration between scientists working in China and Europe confronts political pressure to decouple, disengage, withhold, and withdraw. As geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions grow, the value of scientific networks has been placed under scrutiny and called into question. At the same time cross-border collaboration is integral to the production of scientific and technological innovation and is valued by scientists on both sides of an emergent divide. This chapter investigates what happens within global scientific networks when politics comes to the fore. It does this by tracking how scientific networks are sustained when formal bases of collaboration are constrained. The analysis illuminates how modes of network cohesion and maintenance change according to shifts in the environment. While formal institutional ties between scientists and scientific environments in China and Denmark were degraded, network ties were maintained through existing customary and charismatic modes of network cohesion.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Talent Management in Times of Crisis : China and International Comparisons
EditorsShahamak Rezaei
Number of pages19
Place of PublicationCheltenham
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Publication date2025
Pages100-118
Chapter7
ISBN (Print)9781803921556
ISBN (Electronic)9781803921563
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
SeriesChinese Management and Global Business series

Keywords

  • Global science networks
  • China
  • Geopolitics
  • Unversity collaboration
  • Legitimate authority

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