History and Past Activities
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ESA Conference: Ageing Societies, New Sociology
September 23-26, 2003 in Murcia, Spain
Two streams of sessions of the
Research Network 18: Sociology of Science and Technology (SSTNET)
Convenors:
Raymund Werle: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany (werle@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de)
Marja Häyrinen Alestalo: Dept. of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland (marja.alestalo@helsinki.fi)
Luísa Oliveira: DINÂMIA/ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal (luisa.oliveira@iscte.pt)
Maarten Mentzel: 38 Johan de Wittstraat, 2334 AR Leiden, The Netherlands (m.a.mentzel@planet.nl)
First Stream: Governing Science and Technology in the Era of Globalization
Wednesday Sept. 24
17.00 - 18.30 session 4 (Campus de La Merced)
Chair: Raymund Werle
4.4. Author(s): Kaukonen, Erkki
Institution: Tampere University, Group for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI)
Professional Category: PhD, Senior Researcher
City: Tampere
Country: Finland
E-mail: yterka@uta.fi
THE CONCEPT AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONALITY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: A SMALL COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE
The paper will first discuss the multiple conceptual dimensions of internationality in R&D activities from a small country perspective. Secondly, it will analyze the practical contents, issues and challenges of international activities as seen by the various actors of the broadly conceived research and innovation system.
Internationality may be understood as a communicative (and sometimes commercial) exchange of knowledge and, at the same time, as an investment of human and material resources. Internationality in S&T is thus a cognitive, activity-related, institutional and socio-economic process mediated by R&D policies. International activity takes place at different organizational levels, it has different forms, modes and directions, and its scope (local to global) and intensity vary.
The practical issues and challenges of internationality in S&T as well as the relevance of the conceptual scheme are discussed in the light various data on Finnish developments in the 1990s. The data include policy documents, statistical data and interviews covering the R&D actors from researchers and administrators to key national policy makers.
Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork - last update: April 2006