November 13, 2010, 9:12 am, Minerva,
Minerva.
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…
September 2, 2010, 8:54 am, Minerva,
Minerva.
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…
September 2, 2010, 8:54 am, Minerva,
Minerva.
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…
August 26, 2010, 8:14 pm, Minerva,
Minerva.
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…