David Tyfield, "The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview: Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries (Ontologi"
English | ISBN: 0415688795 | 2011 | 248 pages | PDF | 955 KB
English | ISBN: 0415688795 | 2011 | 248 pages | PDF | 955 KB
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks employ ahistorical analyses that cannot conceptualise, let alone address, the questions of "why have these changes occurred?" and "why now?" Nor, therefore, can they offer much insight into the crucial question of future trends. Given the growing importance of science and innovation in an age of both a globalizing knowledge-based economy (itself in crisis) and enormous challenges that demand scientific and technological responses, these are significant gaps in our understanding of important contemporary social processes.
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