Archiv für die Kategorie ‘Minerva’

Where are the Missing Masses? The Quasi-Publics and Non-Publics of Technoscience

Abstract  The paper offers a political-philosophical analysis of the state and publics in the age of technoscience to propose three
distinct categories of publics: scientific-citizen publics constituted by civil society, quasi-publics that i…

Beyond the “Charmed Circle” of OECD: New Directions for Studies of National Innovation Systems

Abstract  In this paper, we engage with the widespread and influential approach of National Innovation Systems (NIS). We discuss its
adequacy to non-OECD countries, especially in Latin America where it tends to be reified. Although the NIS a…

Elias G. Carayannis and David F. J. Campbell, Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems: 21st-Century Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Development

Elias G. Carayannis and David F. J. Campbell, Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems: 21st-Century Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Development
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 139-142DOI …

The Dedisciplining of Peer Review

Abstract  The demand for greater public accountability is changing the nature of ex ante peer review at public science agencies worldwide. Based on a four year research project, this essay examines these changes
through an analysis of the pr…

On the Teaching of Science, Technology and International Affairs

Abstract  Despite the ubiquity and critical importance of science and technology in international affairs, their role receives insufficient
attention in traditional international relations curricula. There is little literature on how the rel…

Editorial

Editorial
Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11024-012-9193-7Authors
Peter Weingart, Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (IWT), Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld, GermanyNiels C. Taubert, Institu…

Institutional Struggles for Recognition in the Academic Field: The Case of University Departments in German Chemistry

Abstract  This paper demonstrates how the application of New Public Management (NPM) and the accompanying rise of academic capitalism
in allocating research funds in the German academic field have interacted with a change from federal plural…

Meanings and Policy Implications of “Transformative Research”: Frontiers, Hot Science, Evolution, and Investment Risk

Abstract  In recent times there has been a surge in interest on policy instruments to stimulate scientific and engineering research
that is of greater consequence, advancing our knowledge in leaps rather than steps and is therefore more “c…

Continuity or Discontinuity? Scientific Governance in the Pre-History of the 1977 Law of Higher Education and Research in Sweden

Abstract  The objective of this paper is to balance two major conceptual tendencies in science policy studies, continuity and discontinuity
theory. While the latter argue for fundamental and distinct changes in science policy in the late 20t…

Busy as a Bee or Unemployed?: Shifting Scientific Discourse on Work

Abstract  Changing images of work in discourse both portray and co-constitute the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial economy.
Specifically, work metaphors appear in extra-scientific and intra-scientific discourse on workers and wo…