The local configuration of new research fields : on regional and national diversity /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebooks Corporation
Other Authors: Merz, Martina (Editor), Sormani, Philippe (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2016]
Series:Sociology of the sciences ; v. 29.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Configuring New Research Fields: How Policy, Place, and Organization are Made to Matter; Martina Merz and Philippe Sormani
  • PART I: POLICY: NATIONALIZING SCIENCE
  • Chapter 2: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Generic Governance on the Emergence of Research Fields; Jochen Gläser, Grit Laudel and Eric Lettkemann
  • Chapter 3: Building Multidisciplinary Research Fields: The Cases of Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Synthetic Biology; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
  • Chapter 4: Placing a New Science: Exploring Spatial and Temporal Configurations of Synthetic Biology; Morgan Meyer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson
  • PART II: PLACE: MOBILIZING REGIONS
  • Chapter 5: The Local Configuration of a Science and Innovation Policy: A City in the Nanoworld; Dominique Vinck
  • Chapter 6: The Local Articulation of Contextual Resources: From Metallic Glasses to Nanoscale Research; Martina Merz and Peter Biniok
  • Chapter 7: Nanodistricts: Between Global Nanotechnology Promises and Local Cluster Dynamics; Douglas Robinson, Arie Rip, and Aurélie Delemarle
  • PART III: ORGANIZATION: MANAGING TENSIONS
  • Chapter 8: Epistemic Politics at Work: National Policy, an Upstate New York Synchrotron, and the Rise of Protein Crystallography; Park Doing
  • Chapter 9: Ecology Reconfigured: Organizational Innovation, Group Dynamics and Scientific Change; Edward J. Hackett and John N. Parker
  • Chapter 10: Social/local Problems, Scientific/universal Problems and the Dynamics of Research Fields: A View from Latin America; Pablo Kreimer
  • PART IV: MOBILITY: TRANSGRESSING CONTEXTS
  • Chapter 11: Patterns of the International and the National, the Global and the Local in the History of Molecular Biology; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
  • Chapter 12: Recasting the Local and the Global: The Three Lives of Protein Sequencing in Spanish Biomedical Research (1967-1995); Miguel García-Sancho
  • Chapter 13: Practicing Innovation: Mobile Nano-training, Emerging Tensions, and Prospective Arrangements; Philippe Sormani.