<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Cavallaro, Marco</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Lepori, Benedetto</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2020-12-17</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">The aim of this study was to examine how institutional barriers arising from policy decisions influence the level of participation of third- party countries in European Framework Programs (EU-FPs). To achieve this, we contrasted the effect of EU funding restrictions  following Switzerland’s 2014 reclassification as a “third country” in Horizon 2020, and the political uncertainties resulting from the 2016  Brexit vote in the United Kingdom (UK). We compared the participation patterns of Swiss and UK higher education institutions (HEIs)  with control groups of similar European HEIs over time and, complementarily, analyzed changes in the participation of small and  medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our results showed that the Brexit-induced uncertainty had stronger negative effects than the  Swiss reclassification, which was, however, characterized by effective EU funding restrictions. In both cases, the negative impact of  institutional barriers was stronger for the more central HEIs in EU-FP networks. These results suggest that the effect of institutional  barriers is closely linked to consortium building mechanisms, where research collaboration requires stability and projection over the  long term. Regarding individual grants, the impact was stronger for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions than for European Research  Council grants, suggesting that a researcher’s mobility is affected by political uncertainties. Finally, in the UK case, we observed a  steep decrease in the participation of SMEs. Based on these results, we suggest that a stable framework of participation and a clear  ruling on relationships with the EU for what concerns people’s mobility and economic relationships are key to fostering the  participation of third-party countries.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/319210</dc:identifier>
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  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/documents/319210/files/Cavallaro_2021_Spri_scientometrics.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s11192-020-03810-0</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1319210</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>CC BY</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Scientometrics. - 2021, vol. 126, no. 2, p. 1311–1328</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">EU Framework Programs</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Horizon 2020</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">FP7</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Research policy</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Higher education institutions</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Difference-in-difference analysis</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/378.6</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Institutional barriers to participation in EU framework programs : contrasting the Swiss and UK cases</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
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