| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 289 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index. |
| Contents |
1. What is happening to science? -- 2. Scientific and technological progress -- 3. Sophistication and collectivization -- 4. Transition to a new regime -- 5. Allocation of resources -- 6. Institutional responses to change -- 7. Scientific careers -- 8. Science without frontiers -- 9. Steering through the buzzword blizzard. |
| Summary |
After expanding for centuries, science is reaching its limits to growth. We can no longer afford the ever-increasing cost of exploring ever-wider research opportunities. In the competition for resources, science is becoming much more tightly organized. A radical, pervasive and permanent structural change is taking place. This already affects the whole research system, from everyday laboratory life to the national budget. The scientific enterprise cannot avoid fundamental change, but excessive managerial insistence on accountability, evaluation, 'priority setting', etc. can be very inhospitable to expertise, innovation, criticism and creativity. Can the research system be reshaped without losing many features that have made science so productive? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science and state.
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Science and state. |
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Research -- Management.
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Research -- Management. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ziman, J.M. (John M.), 1925-2005. Prometheus bound. Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1994 0521434300 (DLC) 93005922 (OCoLC)28587321 |
| ISBN |
0511001576 (electronic book) |
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9780511001574 (electronic book) |
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9780511585067 (electronic book) |
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0511585063 (electronic book) |
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0521434300 (hardback) |
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9780521434300 |
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