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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Comparative Science and Technology Policy
Book SynopsisScience and technology policy is widely recognized as a critically important sphere of state activity. This book presents an authoritative overview of comparative research on science and technology policy in order to illuminate the choices that confront decision makers in this field. With contributions from various disciplines including economics, political science, law and science and technology studies, the selection of articles reflects both traditional perspectives and those which challenge conventional assumptions. The book covers such topics as the relationship between science and the state, and comparisons of how different governments seek to support and regulate scientific research, technology, industrial innovation and global competitiveness. Finally it looks at how international influences can affect national policies.Table of ContentsPART I: Science, Technology, and the State 1. Y. Ezrahi (1984), ‘Science and Utopia in Late 20th Century Pluralist Democracy: With a Special Reference to the U.S.A’ 2. J.G. Ruggie (1975), ‘International Responses to Technology: Concepts and Trends’ 3. E. Solingen (1993), ‘Between Markets and the State: Scientists in Comparative Perspective’ 4. A. Jamison (1987), ‘National Styles of Science and Technology: A Comparative Model’ PART II: Governmental Support for Science 5. H. Nowotny (1990), ‘Knowledge for Certainty: Poverty, Welfare Institutions and the Institutionalization of Social Science’ 6. A. Rip (1994), ‘The Republic of Science in the 1990’s’ 7. A. Elzinga and I. Bohlin (1989), ‘The Politics of Science in Polar Regions’ 8. Y. Gingras and M. Trépanier (1993), ‘Constructing a Tokamak: Political, Economic, and Technical Factors as Constraints and Resources’ PART III: Cross-National Perspectives on Technology Policy 9. Henry Ergas (1987), ‘Does Technology Policy Matter?’ 10. R.R. Nelson (1990), ‘U.S. Technological Leadership: Where Did It Come From, and Where Did It Go?’ 11. M. Evangelista (1989), ‘Issue-Area and Foreign Policy Revisited’ 12. H. Willke (1995), ‘The Proactive State: The Role of National Enabling Policies in Global Socio-Economic Transformations’ PART IV: Cultures of Innovation 13. P. Patel and K. Pavitt (1994), ‘National Innovation Systems: Why They Are Important, and How They Might Be Measured and Compared’ 14. H. Kitschelt (1991), ‘Industrial Governance Structures, Innovation Strategies and the Case of Japan: Sectoral or Cross-National Comparative Analysis?’ 15. J. Nicholas Ziegler (1995), ‘Institutions, Elites, and Technological Change in France and Germany’ PART V: Regulatory Politics and Policy 16. Sheila Jasanoff (1990), ‘American Exceptionalism and the Political Acknowledgement of Risk’ 17. J. Abraham and E. Millstone (1989), ‘Food Additive Controls: Some International Comparisons’ 18. D. Vogel (1992), ‘Consumer Protection and Protectionism in Japan’ 19. K. Harrison and G. Hoberg (1991), ‘Setting the Environmental Agenda in Canada and the United States: The Cases of Dioxin and Radon‘ 20. M.R. Reich (1995), ‘The Politics of Agenda Setting in International Health: Child Health versus Adult Health in Developing Countries’ 21. A.L. Bonnicksen (1994), ‘National and International Approaches to Human Germ-Line Gene Therapy’ 22. M.E. Porter and Claas van der Linde (1995), ‘Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship’(22) PART VI: International Influences and National Policy 23. P.M. Haas (1989), ‘Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control’ 24. M.A. Hajer (1995), ‘Politics on the Move: The Democratic Control of the Design of Sustainable Technologies’ 25. D. Laurence and B. Wynne (1989), ‘Transporting Waste in the European Community: A Free Market? ’ 26. A. Mol and J. Law (1994), ‘Regions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology’ 27. J.N. Rosenau (1992), ‘The Relocation of Authority in a Shrinking World’
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Campus Verlag Varieties of Innovation Systems: The Governance
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the governance structures and mechanisms of knowledge and technology transfer in the context of innovation and production systems in six regions of Europe. For that purpose, the author develops a new and innovative heuristic governance model of knowledge transfer systems. Against the assumption of far-reaching institutional coherence and homogeneity of national systems in existing scholarship, Michael Ortiz demonstrates that national innovation and production systems are regionally variegated. With analyses of strengths and weaknesses, barriers, shortcomings, and dilemmas of regional innovation and knowledge transfer systems, the book ultimately identifies best practice models and policy recommendations for the investigated regions.
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ISEAS The National Research and Innovation Agency
Book SynopsisOn 28 April 2021, the Indonesian government, under President Joko Widodo, dissolved the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (Kemenristek-Dikti). Since then, the management of higher education has been taken over by the Ministry of Education and Culture, while research and innovation are now the responsibility of the National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, or BRIN). Based on Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Nos. 33 and 78 of 2021, various research institutes, such as LIPI, BATAN, LAPAN and BPPT, and research agencies in some ministries have been or will be merged into BRIN, making it a "super-government agency" with an "overarching" role. With a Rp26 trillion budget allocated by the government for research per year and with a large number of researchers, BRIN is expected to boost national research and innovation, and help the country catch up with countries such as Singapore and South Korea.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Capitalist Transformation
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Taylor & Francis Transhumanism Nature and the Ends of Science
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Countering Cyber Sabotage Introducing ConsequenceDriven CyberInformed Engineering CCE
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Taylor & Francis Scientists Impact on Decisionmaking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Science Freedom Democracy
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Taylor & Francis Telecom Sector Regulation in India
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Effects of Technology and Institutions on EParticipation
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Taylor & Francis Theory and Best Practices in Science Communication Training
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Taylor & Francis State Policies and TechnoIndustrial Innovation
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Taylor & Francis Governance and Knowledge
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Egypts Incomplete Revolution
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Taylor & Francis Artificial Intelligence
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Cambridge University Press Scientific Productivity
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Cambridge University Press Achieving Nuclear Ambitions
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Cambridge University Press The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution
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Cambridge University Press Research Projects Research Proposal A Guide for Scientists Seeking Funding
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Cambridge University Press The Story of Taxol Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an AntiCancer Drug
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Cambridge University Press Funding Science in America
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Cambridge University Press Climate Change Biological and Human Aspects
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Cambridge University Press Achieving Nuclear Ambitions
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Cambridge University Press Funding Science in America
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Cambridge University Press Research Projects and Research Proposals
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Cambridge University Press The Evaluation Game
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Cambridge University Press The Evaluation Game
Book SynopsisThis text provides a detailed introduction to the origin and development of publication metrics used to measure academic productivity across the world, and the effect they have upon the quality and diversity of scientific research.Trade Review'Research evaluation has taken very different forms under different bureaucracies and political systems. Kulczycki makes a unique contribution by explaining some 'untold histories of research evaluation' from Eastern Europe and comparing metric-based evaluation models under socialist and neoliberal regimes.' Ismael Rafols, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden'Emanuel Kulczycki is uniquely positioned to provide this highly insightful critique of the relationship between academia and the state in research evaluation systems. In this book, evaluation is not merely an event of which researchers are the sole object or beneficiary but a process that is inextricably tied to issues of trust, communication, discipline diversity and the power of the state. Only by reconciling these relationships can we move to more responsible research evaluation and address academic resistance.' Gemma Derrick, Centre for Higher Education Transformations, University of Bristol'The author uses the metaphor in the title to emphasize the competitive environment in which scientific research takes place. He shows the extent to which research evaluation originates (also) from the government. In this context, he points out a remarkable difference between the West (USA and Western Europe) and the former Eastern Bloc. In the West, researchers have more confidence in colleagues, via peer review, while in the former East Bloc, there is a historic distrust in authorities (experts), and hence a preference for bibliometric indicators. The book draws attention to power relations in science and as such is a useful read, not only for information scientists but also for sociologists and political scientists who want to take a glonacal (global-national-local) perspective.' Ronald Rousseau, KU Leuven and University of AntwerpTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Evaluation as power; 2. Economization and metricization; 3. Untold histories of research evaluation; 4. The diversity of evaluative powers; 5. Players and the stakes; 6. Playing the evaluation game; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Index.
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MIT Press Ltd On the Brink of Utopia
Book SynopsisA new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved challenges. A radical shift in the culture of innovation is needed. On the Brink of Utopia, by authors Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword written by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell, offers just that—a new and coherent framework for fostering breakthrough innovations for human progress. In their “Innovation Leap Paradigm,” they present seven steps in seven chapters and answer three simple questions: What great challenges need to be tackled? Who makes tech leaps? And finally, what political, economic, and cultural environments foster radical innovation? The authors sketch out a future in which technology will solve real
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Silicon Triangle
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Executive Summary Introduction: Washington, Taipei, and Beijing: The Silicon Triangle 1: Scenarios for Future US-China Competition 2: Implications of Technology Trends in the Semiconductor Industry 3: An Insurance Policy for Dependence of US Supply Chains on Foreign Providers 4: A Long-Term Competitiveness Strategy for US Domestic Semiconductor Technology 5: Deepening US-Taiwan Cooperation through Semiconductors 6: US Allies, Partners, and Friends 7: Jointly Deterring Beijing through Semiconductors 8: China’s Lagging Techno-Nationalism 9: Mitigating the Impact of China’s Nonmarket Behavior in Semiconductors Conclusion and Discussion of Recommendations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Working Group Participants Index
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era
Book SynopsisThe latest book from the most dangerous philosopher in the West (New Republic) considers the new dangers and radical possibilities set in motion by advances in Big Tech.In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that all that is solid melts into air. With the automation of work, the virtualization of money, the dissipation of class communities, and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labor, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before--and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely.But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Žižek argues, there can be no great social triumph--because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it. Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.
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Melville House Publishing No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with
Book SynopsisThe riveting and mostly untold story about the battle for financial and technological power and mastery between the West and China over the last decade.Since China joined the WTO in December 2001, the West has been developing ever closer business and political ties. China's hosting of the Olympic Games and its economic leadership in 2008 as the world faced recession were signs that China's new power and wealth would herald greater global prosperity for all. But that era is over.What was the cause of this rupture, leading China expert Andrew Small asks and what does it mean for the future? Using his deep access to the leading players in the story, Small dramatizes the intense political battles over the introduction of 5G to show how China and the West have spilt and how those abstract geopolitical rivalries translate into our daily lives—the phones we all use, the hidden wiring of the economy, and who controls it. Written with extraordinary insider access, Small's story ranges from deep inside the bowels of the Pentagon to Indian Ocean naval bases, and from the boardrooms of the world’s leading technology firms to the Taliban leadership in Kabul. The result is an engaging, lucid and even-handed account of the defining geopolitical issue of our age, and a clarion call for us to recognize the true nature of China’s global ambitions.
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