The Collaborative Era in Science: Governing the Network

by Caroline S. Wagner

Overview

In recent years a global network of science has emerged as a result of thousands of individual scientists seeking to collaborate with colleagues around the world, creating a network which rises above national systems. The globalization of science is part of the underlying shift in knowledge creation generally: the collaborative era in science. Over the past decade, the growth in the amount of knowledge and the speed at which it is available has created a fundamental shift—where data, information, and knowledge were once scarce resources, they are now abundantly available. Collaboration, openness, customer- or problem-focused research and development, altruism, and reciprocity are notable features of abundance, and they create challenges that economists have not yet studied. This book defines the collaborative era, describes how it came to be, reveals its internal dynamics, and demonstrates how real-world practitioners are changing to take advantage of it. Most importantly, the book lays out a guide for policymakers and entrepreneurs as they shift perspectives to take advantage of the collaborative era in order to create social and economic welfare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319949864
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	10/25/2018
Series:	Palgrave Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Technology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Caroline S. Wagner is the Ambassador Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Chair in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs and an advisor to the Battelle Center for Science and Technology Policy at the Ohio State University, USA. Previously, she served as deputy to the director of the Science&Technology Policy Institute at the RAND Corporation. She is the editor of the journal Science and Public Policy, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Table of Contents

​1. Science in the Age of Knowledge Abundance.- 2. The Scale and Scope of Global Science.- 3. Levels and Patterns of Communication in the Global Network.- 4. It’s Who You Know (or Could Know) That Counts.- 5. The Global Network of Science Emerges.- 6. Openness in the Global Network.- 7. Nations Within the Global Network.- 8. Local Innovation and the Global Network.- 9. Governing Global Science.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Now more than ever, scientists and policymakers need this book’s illumination of how science has transformed into a globally networked enterprise based on collaboration, openness, and abundance. By examining science though complexity theory, network analysis, and science communication, this book is an indispensable travel guide for our emergent world system of science. Don’t try to navigate today’s and tomorrow’s science without it.” (Kei Koizumi, Senior Advisor for Science Policy, AAAS, USA)

“This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in the study, and practice, of contemporary science, its dynamics and policy. It continues a long research thread of viewing science as a network and provides a unique picture of the formative dynamics, structure, implications and challenges of its global collaborative era. Let us hope that this timely book, among other things, would alert policy to the advantages and challenges of making scientific knowledge truly and universally accessible.” (Maria Nedeva, Professor of Science and Innovation Dynamics and Policy, MIoIR, The University of Manchester, UK)

Editorial Reviews

This book explores what that global network is, and Wagner makes suggestions for ways to improve knowledge gathering and diffusion on a global scale. Readers gain valuable insights about how public policy manages the growing and maturing global scientific enterprise, and how clusters and convergence contribute to forming networks of scientific collaboration around the world. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals.” (J. Gelfand, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019)

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