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Understanding Academic Drift: On the Institutional Dynamics of Higher Technical and Professional Education

Abstract  ‘Academic drift’ is a term sometimes used to describe the process whereby knowledge which is intended to be useful gradually
loses close ties to practice while becoming more tightly integrated with one or other body of scientif…

Do Spin-Offs Make the Academics’ Heads Spin?

Abstract  As public research organisations are increasingly driven by their national and regional governments to engage in knowledge
transfer, they have started to support the creation of companies. These research based spin-off companies (R…

Machineries for Making Publics: Inscribing and De-scribing Publics in Public Engagement

Abstract  This paper investigates the dynamic and performative construction of publics in public engagement exercises. In this investigation,
we, on the one hand, analyse how public engagement settings as political machineries frame particul…

Innovation Without the Word: William F. Ogburn’s Contribution to the Study of Technological Innovation

Abstract  The history of innovation as a category is dominated by economists and by the contribution of J. A. Schumpeter. This paper
documents the contribution of a neglected but influential author, the American sociologist William F. Ogburn…