Trade-off ou complementariedade entre C&T? uma análise do papel do laboratório na conexão das redes de coinvenção e coautoria dos pesquisadores

Abstract

Our research adds a contribution to the literature by investigating how the participation in different types of research laboratories is associated to the importance that scientists have in their scientific and technological collaboration networks, and the extent of overlap between the two networks conditioned to the participation in these laboratories. We used a nationwide database for 1,756 Brazilian public research laboratories classified in five categories, whose differences are concentrated in the composition of the personnel structure and in the scope of activities performed in laboratories. We combine data from patent co-authorship and scientific co-authorship of 455 authors-inventors linked to the laboratories and we estimated how the participation in different categories of laboratories is related to their betweenness, eigenvector and closeness centralities in both networks. Our results indicate that authors-inventors linked 2 to laboratories with high participation of technicians in the staff are less likely to occupy central positions in scientific and technological collaboration networks and that those linked to the medium-scale university laboratories dedicated to teaching, research and technological development are more likely to occupy important positions in both networks. We also found that authors-inventors linked to low-scale laboratories tend to occupy less important positions when the importance is weighted by the eigenvector centrality, whereas those linked to large- scale laboratories are more likely to occupy central positions when the importance is weighted by closeness centrality.