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ESA - Conference "Will Europe Work?"
WILL EUROPE WORK?
Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA)
18—21 August 1999, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Stream of sessions of the SSTNET
CHANGING CONDITIONS OF RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE
Convenors:
Raymund Werle (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Marja Häyrinen-Alestalo (University of Helsinki, Department of Sociology)
Maarten A. Mentzel (School of Systems Engineering and Policy Analysis, Deft University)
Abstract
Worldwide, research and development (R&D) in universities, public labs and in the private sector is undergoing change. New descriptive concepts such as the "Mode 2 production of knowledge", the "Triple Helix of university-government-industry relations" and "post-academic science" have been introduced to illustrate the institutional, organizational and procedural aspects of change. These concepts emphasize the evolutionary and global character of the transformation process. However, as their theoretical value and empirical evidence are limited, the respective analyses have tended to underestimate or neglect agency and control on the one hand and the role of national, regional and local factors of the process on the other. Both groups of factors have prevented R&D from converging at a uniform pattern of doing research. The ways they have shaped R&D are specified and traced in the sessions focusing exclusively on Europe which after the break-down of the iron curtain provides a multifarious picture of institutional and organizational forms of R&D. They have developed as a result of an interaction of pervasive dynamics of change, such as the shift towards Mode 2, national R&D policies or the process of European integration.
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Agenda
Science Policy and the Integration of Europe
- Petra Ahrweiler: Emerging European Research and Technology Networks between Self-Organisation and Political Control
- Jürgen Roth, Günter Küppers & Corinna Schlombs: Shifting Uncertainties: The Self-Organisation of European Research Policy.
- Max Haller: Servants of Power or Providers of Indispensable Ideas? Considerations of the Role of Social Scientists and the Use of Science and Research in the Making of European Union.
New Modes of Knowledge and Technology Production
- John Ziman: Ethos and Ethics in Post-Academic Science: Modes, Roles and Norms in a Pluralist Culture.
- Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen & Gerd Bender: Transformation of Social Structures as Part of the Generation of New Technologies.
- Frans A.J.Birrer: Hybridisation in R&D and Its Consequences for Quality Control: Opportunities and Caveats for Europe.
- Georg Kruecken: Institutional Change of Universities through Technology Transfer.
Changing Objectives of the Universities
- Pirjo Niskanen: Academic Values and Public Private Collaboration.
- Maria Nedeva & Jeremy Howells: Passionate Affair or Marriage of Convenience: Relationships Between Universities and Industry in the United Kingdom.
- Johanna Hakala, Erkki Kaukonen, Mika Niemine & Oili-Helena Ylijoki: The Changing Structures, Ideals and Practices of University Research.
- Karoliina Snell: University Education Serving Three Masters: Science, Masses and Markets.
- Lisa Lucas: Scientific Research Culture: A Study of Two British Universities.
Knowledge Transfer and Use
- Nicole Farkas: Science Shops and the Dutch Model. Social Signals of Dutch University Research.
- Osmo Kivinen & Pasi Tulkki: The Knowledge Creating Networks in Biotechnology.
- Pal Tamas: Technological Learning and Multinational Corporations in Emerging Industrial Clusters.
- Søren Wenneberg & Flemming Poulfeldt: Transfer of Management Knowledge Between Academics and Practioners.
- Frank Mali: The Social Barriers in the Shaping of Links Between Academic Science, Governments and Industry in Small Social Systems (The Case of Slovenia).
- Milena Davidovic: Social Change and the Phenomenon of the National in Yugoslav Sociology.
New Problems of Science Policy (Case Studies)
- Karel Müller: De-Traditionalisation of Research System — A Perspective of an Institutional Change in New Democracies.
- Nadezhda A. Ascheulova: Government Regulation (the Example of Russian Science).
- Janos Farkas: R&D in Transition in Hungary.
- Samuel Kugel: Institutional Changes in Russian Science and Higher Education.
- Grit Laudel & Jochen Glaeser: How to Become an ´Old Boy´: East German Scientists' Integration into Scientific Communities as a Task of Science Policy".
- Sven Hemlin: Quality Control in the New Knowledge Production.
- Ana Paula Gravito, Sandra Pereira, Ana Delicado: State sponsored R&D in Portugal - funding and regulating institutions.
- Luisa Oliviera: Societal Coherence and the New Ways of Production of Knowledge: The Case of Portugal
- Yei Fei Su: Generation and the Use of Agricultural Technology in the Case of Rose Production and Distribution.
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