SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL - THE CASE OF A SMALL COUNTRY

Despite the various studies on international collaboration, we still k now very little about other forms of scientific collaboration. The pre sent paper looks at collaboration at a national level, more particular ly between regions in a country. It is found that regional collaborati on is very limited. In fact, international collaboration is three time s more important than regional collaboration. This can be explained by the fact that the competition center in science is international rath er than national.