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Sticky Policies, Dysfunctional Systems: Path Dependency and the Problems of Government Funding for Science in the United States
Leaders of the scientific community have declared that American science is in a crisis due to inadequate federal funding. They misconstrue the...
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Does Cluster Hiring Enhance Faculty Research Output, Collaborations, and Impact? Results from a National Study of U.S. Research Universities
For U.S. research universities, cluster hiring has become a popular means to add faculty members in university-defined priority fields. The...
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Barriers to University Spin-Off Creation in an Emerging Context: An Institutional Theory of Organizations Approach
The present study contributes elements to the literature for the understanding of those institutional factors of organizations that promote the...
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From Deliberation to Production: Public Participation in Science and Technology Policies of the European Commission (1998–2019)
This article investigates how a discourse about the role and value of public participation in science, technology, and innovation emerged and evolved...
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Deepening the Consequences of Multidisciplinarity on Research: The Moderating Role of Social Capital
This paper discusses the relationship between multidisciplinarity and research performance in the academic context. The paper explains how scholars’...
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Dissonance and Polyphasia as Strategies for Resolving the Potential Conflict Between Science and Religion Among South Africans
A majority of South Africans agrees that when science and religion conflict, religion is always right. Is this an indication the public is...
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Performing Public Good: The Statecraft of Objective and Optimal FIT
Technoscientific-legal rationality in policy-making is the statecraft of creating a ‘factual reality’ which in effect co-produces a combined...
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International Mobility and Social Capital in the Academic Field
The relationship between the international mobility of academic researchers and social capital is complex. On the one hand, the literature suggests...
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How Do Academic Elites March Through Departments? A Comparison of the Most Eminent Economists and Sociologists’ Career Trajectories
This article compares the career trajectories and mobility patterns of Nobel Laureates in economics with those of highly cited sociologists to...
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Cross-Sectoral Mobility Funding and the Challenge of Immersion: The Case of SSH
Project funding rarely demands much change on behalf of the recipient. In contrast, cross-sectoral mobility funding requires recipients to change...
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Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Scholarly Independence in Multidisciplinary Learning Environments at Doctoral Level and Beyond
The aim of this study is to investigate how patterns of collaboration and scholarly independence are related to early stage researchers’ development...
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University vs. Research Institute? The Dual Pillars of German Science Production, 1950–2010
The world’s third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university...
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Implementing the Innovation Agenda: A Study of Change at a Research Funding Agency
With the rise of an innovation agenda in science policy, previous studies have identified a shift in how the state delegates responsibility to...
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The Role of Expectations of Science in Sha** Research Policy: A Discursive Analysis of the Creation of Genome Canada
This paper examines the promise of science and its role in sha** research policy. The promise of science is characterized by expectations of...
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“I’ll Look Into it!” Lubricants in Conversational Coproduction
This study investigates the interaction between civil servants and politicians in a planning committee in a Swedish county council. As the committees...
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Does Academia Still Call? Experiences of Academics in Germany and the United States
Given the significant transformations underway in academia, it is pertinent to ask whether the traditional notion of entering the profession in...
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The Perceived Impact of Eight Systemic Factors on Scientific Capital Accumulation
In the global academic capitalist race, academics, institutions and countries’ symbolic power results from the accumulation of scientific capital....