The Political Economy of Public Science: a Contribution to the Regulation of Science and Technology

2002 ◽  
pp. 33-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. David
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Science

Challenges to the Story of Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Michiel van Oudheusden
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Responsible Research And Innovation ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Technological Decision Making

This chapter sets out the meanings attached to the concept of ‘innovation’ and asks how it has recently come to occupy the political and economic position it now holds. Drawing from science and technology studies, which has long sought to better incorporate the public in technological decision-making, it explores the impetus towards connecting ‘responsibility’ with ‘innovation’ and the context from which this derives. Finally, it examines how this impetus has become incorporated into various frameworks for Responsible (Research and) Innovation, and what is missing from this approach in terms of understanding the place of ‘innovation’ in the present political economy, and the place of politics in innovation.

A Scientific Monopoly

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Sasges
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Political ◽  
Alcohol Production ◽  
History Of

Today, Albert Calmette is remembered as a pioneer of modern medicine for his work on the BCG tuberculosis vaccine, still in use today. Yet in 1891 he was an inexperienced naval doctor, recently arrived in Saigon and tasked with creating Indochina’s new bacteriological institute. While in Indochina, Calmette would carry out research crucial for the industrialization of rice alcohol production, and after his return to France he would work closely with the industrialist A.R. Fontaine to turn their vision of an alcohol monopoly into a reality. Yet while Calmette’s research promised increased yields at lower cost, the alcohol that resulted bore little resemblance to traditional liquor. Selling the factory liquor would thus require heavy-handed state intervention to encourage consumption. Calmette’s story sheds light on the political economy of innovation and highlights the place of colonialism in the history of science and technology.

The Political Economy of Restructuring in Science and Technology in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-586
Author(s):  
Itir Ozer-Imer ◽  
S. Tugrul Imer
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
High Technology ◽  
The Political

This study aims to analyse the policies with respect to, and structuring of, science and technology in Turkey from a historical perspective, and to evaluate the restructuring currently going on, from the viewpoint of institutions on science and technology. Such restructuring has undergone many transformations throughout Turkish history, and has been influenced directly by both internal and external dynamics. From the examples of other countries, we learn that success in high technology production results from well-established and sound industrial and scientific infrastructures. It would be useful to set forth such a vision for Turkey as well.

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