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Scientific Cooperation in a German Polish Border Region in the Light of EU Enlargement

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Starting point of this paper is the Eastern enlargement of the EU and the economic advantages and disadvantages for the old and the new EU member states. It focuses on the impact of the enlargement on border regions, especially between Germany and Poland, and introduces into the EU support programs which aim to integrate regions on both sides of the border. The scientific cooperation is picked as an example of cross-border activities which had to be (re-)established after the system break. An empirical study on the example of Europa University Viadrina—a newly founded university in the German-Polish border region—shows the extent of German-Polish cooperation based on co-publication activity.

The chapter builds on an article previously published: Gunther J., Latifi G., Lubacha-Sember J., Tobelmann D. (2017) Scientific Cooperation in a German-Polish Border Region in the Light of EU Enlargement. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 11, no 1, pp. 42–53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/2500-2597.2017.1.42.53.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    There is a large literature on the convergence process between East and West Germany (e.g. Ludwig 2015; Heimpold and Titze 2014; Aumann and Scheufele 2011). The convergence process between the Eastern and Western part of Germany slowed down in the second half of the 1990s and has nearly come to an end now. It would be far beyond the scope of this article to go into this literature and analyses on East and West Germany.

  2. 2.

    When writing this article, the referendum over the membership of the country in the EU took place in Great Britain. The majority voted for an exit of the EU, and negotiations are going on right now.

  3. 3.

    He was based on Francois and Shiells (1994) who described the impact of NAFTA on Mexico and US, so he made some tentative analysis-by-analogy assuming that a kind of same situation occurs in EU as well.

  4. 4.

    Proximity to Bulgaria in this situation and with forthcoming potential candidates (Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Serbia etc.).

  5. 5.

    Henrekson et al. (1997) analysing effects of European integration on economic growth of UE-15 found, that European Community membership may increase growth rate (about 0.6–0.8 percentage points), and that technology transfer is the main mechanism through which membership can affect growth.

  6. 6.

    Beta convergence refers to “a statistically significant negative relationship exists between the “initial” per capita GDP of individual countries on the one hand, and their per capita growth rates on the other” (Oblath et al. 2015, p. 26).

  7. 7.

    Sigma convergence refers to “the cross-section dispersion in levels of income declines over time” (Oblath et al. 2015, p. 26).

  8. 8.

    However, some methodological issues regarding to measures of comparative growth performance (which can influence interpretation of results) are discussed in the paper.

  9. 9.

    Authors probably analysed beta-convergence process, but the type of convergence was not directly mentioned in the text.

  10. 10.

    Kohl (2015) in his text analysed also the social cohesion processes in new member states.

  11. 11.

    Total CEECs-10 population calculated based on Eurostat database (demo_pjan).

  12. 12.

    The author found irrational also the overestimation of the benefits of new EU members and underestimation of their costs. For more information see Ellison (2006) Divide and Conquer: The European Union Enlargement’s Successful Conclusion? International Studies Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 150–65.

  13. 13.

    Migration until the year 2006 was analysed by Anacka and Fihel (2012).

  14. 14.

    Authors based on data from: Bundesamt, Bevölkerung und Erwerbstätigkeit Fachserie 1 Reihe 2, 2011.

  15. 15.

    Glänzel and Winterhager (1992) have also measured the rate of citations impact of the three.

  16. 16.

    Authors focus in the text on Polish-German cross-border cooperation, therefore other co-publications were not detailed investigated, although data about them were also collected.

  17. 17.

    The “Professorship for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies” is closely connected to the centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Poland (ZIP). The chair holder is the head of ZIP.

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Acknowledgement

We thank Mahmood Shubbak (Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Bremen) for his kind assistance in running the network analysis and Marcel Lange (Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Bremen) for his kind assistance in data collection and formatting.

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    Jutta Günther & Daniel Töbelmann

  2. Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Gresa Latifi

  3. Institute of Economics, Finance, and Management, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

    Judyta Lubacha-Sember

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Günther, J., Latifi, G., Lubacha-Sember, J., Töbelmann, D. (2018). Scientific Cooperation in a German Polish Border Region in the Light of EU Enlargement. In: Meissner, D., Erdil, E., Chataway, J. (eds) Innovation and the Entrepreneurial University. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62649-9_11

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