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Imagining Doctoral Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Driving Technology or Being Driven by Technology
The recent technological revolution, often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or the Second Machine Age, has brought significant changes...
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Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education
Higher education has expanded at astonishing rates around the world. We seek to understand the oppositions that periodically arise, which may produce...
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Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective
During the last several decades, the concept of social innovation has been a subject of scientific and practical discourse. As an important paradigm...
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Participatory Governance Practices at the Democracy-Knowledge-Nexus
Against the background of an increasing dependency of governance on specialized expertise and growing calls for citizen participation, this study...
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Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment
In this paper, we bring together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice. We argue that citizen...
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Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change
Most studies of academic inbreeding have focused on assessing its impact on scholarly practices, outputs, and outcomes. Few studies have concentrated...
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China’s Research Evaluation Reform: What are the Consequences for Global Science?
In the 1990s, China created a research evaluation system based on publications indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) and on the Journal Impact...
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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness: The Effect of Organizational Commercial Slack
The paper examines the role of organizational commercial slack (OCS) in mediating the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and the...
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Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding
More than resource allocations, evaluations of funding applications have become central instances for status bestowal in academia. Much attention in...
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Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices
Retraction of published research is laudable as a post-publication self-correction of science but undesirable as an indicator of grave violations of...
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Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy
This article explores morality and credibility struggles in connection to two officially sanctioned public Swedish experiments launched in the late...
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“The Hardest Task”—Peer Review and the Evaluation of Technological Activities
Technology development and innovation are fundamentally different from scientific research. However, in many circumstances, they are evaluated...
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The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society
This paper analyses the interrelations between academic disciplines and society beyond academia by the case of sociology in Norway. For that purpose,...
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Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions
This paper presents a framework to understand the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, focusing on the conceptual impact. We...
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Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s
This study analyses the patenting activities of university science and engineering professors in Canada between 1920 and 1975. Unlike most studies on...
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Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism
As health care systems have been recast as innovation assets, commercial aims are increasingly prominent within states’ health and medical research...
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Revisiting the Global Knowledge Economy: The Worldwide Expansion of Research and Development Personnel, 1980–2015
Global science expansion and the ‘skills premium’ in labor markets have been extensively discussed in the literature on the global knowledge economy,...
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Transnational Co-production of Knowledge: The Standardisation of Typhoon Warning Codes in the Far East, 1900–1939
The why and the how of knowledge production are examined in the case of the transnational cooperation between the directors of observatories in the...