Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes and Yannick Barthe, Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 509-511DOI 10.1007/s11024-011-9186-yAuthors
Thomas Berker, Department of Interdis…
Abstract Regardless of the increased interest in technological innovation in universities, relatively little is known about the technology
developed by academic scientists. Long-term analyses of researchers’ technological contribution are…
Abstract In this paper we discuss the interaction between science policies (and particularly in the area of scientific research) and
higher education policies in Gulf and Mediterranean Arab countries. Our analysis reveals a discrepancy betw…
Abstract Scientific collaboration can only be understood along the epistemic and cognitive grounding of scientific disciplines. New
scientific discoveries in astrophysics led to a major restructuring of the elite network of astrophysics. To…
Abstract Major changes in the governance of higher education and the public sciences have taken place over the past 40 or so years
in many OECD countries. These have affected the nature of authority relationships governing research prioriti…
Abstract This article draws upon concepts developed in recent empirical and theoretical work on high skilled and academic mobility
and migration including accidental mobility, forced mobility and negotiated mobility. These concepts inform a…
Abstract This paper argues that Ludwik Fleck’s concepts of thought collectives and proto-ideas are surprisingly topical to tackle some
conceptual challenges in analyzing contemporary innovation. The objective of this paper is twofold: Fir…
Abstract Two of Bourdieu’s fundamental contributions to science studies—the reflexive analysis of the social and human sciences and
the concept of an intellectual field—are used to frame a reflexive study of the history and social stu…
Mark B. Brown, Science in Democracy. Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 349-354DOI 10.1007/s11024-011-9179-xAuthors
Robert Hoppe, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
J…
Abstract For decades, debates over medical curriculum reform have centred on the role of science in medical education, but the meaning
of ‘science’ in this domain is vague and the persistence of the debate has not been explained. Follow…
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