Shaping strategic research: Power, resources, and interests in Swedish research policy

Minerva

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-48

  Benner, Mats ^a   Sörlin, Sverker ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 33947141590     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11024-006-9019-6     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Jason Owen-Smith, 'From Separate Systems to a Hybrid Order', Research Policy, 32 (6), (2003), 1081-1104.
2. David H. Guston, 'Principal-agent Theory and the Structure of Science Policy', Science and Public Policy, 23 (4), (1996), 229-240.
3. Aldo Geuna, Aamon Salter, and Edward Steinmueller (eds.), Science and Innovation (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003).
4. Michel Callon, 'Is Science a Public Good?', Science, Technology, and Human Values, 19 (4), (1994), 395-425.
5. Daniele Archibugi and Bengt-Ake Lundvall (eds.), The Globalizing Learning Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
6. Simon Marginson, The Anglo-American University at its Global High Tide', Minerva, 44 (1), (2006), 65-86;
7. Sally Davenport, 'Panic and Panacea: Brain Drain and Science and Technology Human Capital Policy', Research Policy, 33 (4), (2004), 617-630.
8. Mats Benner and Ulf Sandström, 'Institutionalizing the Triple Helix: Research Funding and Norms in the Academic System', Research Policy, 29 (2), 291-301;
9. Tomas Hellström and Merle Jacob, 'Taming Unruly Science and Saving National Competitiveness: Discourses on Science by Sweden's Strategic Research Bodies', Science, Technology, and Human Values, 30 (4), (2005), 443-467.
10. Dominique Pestre, 'Regimes of Knowledge Production in Society: Towards a More Political and Social Reading', Minerva, 41 (3), (2003), 245-261;
11. Aldo Geuna and Ben R. Martin, 'University Research Evaluation and Funding: An International Comparison', Minerva, 41 (4), (2003), 377-304.
12. Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott, and Michael Gibbons, 'Introduction, "Mode 2" Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge', Minerva, 41 (3), (2003), 179-194.
13. Gerard Delanty, Challenging Knowledge (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001);
14. Aant Elzinga, 'Metaphors, Models and Reification in Science and Technology Policy Discourse', Science as Culture, 13 (1), (2004), 105-121.
15. Our research is documented in more detail in Sverker Sörlin (ed.), I den absoluta frontlinjen: En bok om forskningsstiftelserna, konkurrenskraften och politikens möjligheter (At the Very Research Front: A Book on the Research Foundations, Competitiveness, and What Politics Can Do) (Stockholm: Nya Doxa, 2005).
16. The Wage Earners' Funds were created in 1984 under a Social Democratic Government as an instrument to encourage profit sharing and cooperative management. They were bitterly resented by the Centre-Right parties. Cf. Mats Benner, The Politics of Growth: Economic Regulation in Sweden, 1930-1994 (Lund: Arkiv, 1997).
17. Sweden's four research councils -for medicine, engineering, natural sciences, and the humanities and social sciences -were founded in the 1940s, and merged into the newly established Swedish Research Council in 2001.
18. Robert E. Kohler, Partners in Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
19. Interview with respondent, December 1996.
20. Stuart S. Blume, Science Policy Research: The State of the Art and Implications for Policy (Stockholm: Forskningsrådsnämnden, 1981).
21. Bengt Stenlund, Hinc robur et securitas? (From This, Strength and Security'?) (Stockholm: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2005).
22. Philippe Laredo and Philippe Mustar (eds.), Research and Innovation Policies in the New Global Economy (Cheltenham: Elgar 2001).
23. Quoted in Mats Benner, 'Starkare forskningsmiljöer?' ('Stronger Research Environments?') in Sverker Sörlin (ed.), I den absoluta frontlinjen (At the Very Research Front), (Nora: Nya Doxa 2005), 274.
24. Michael Gibbons, Camille Limoges, Helga Nowotny, Simon Schwartzman, Peter Scott, and Martin Trow, The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies (London: Sage Publications, 1994);
25. Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff, Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy: A Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations (London: Pinter, 1997).
26. Quoted in Benner, op.cit. note 19, 276.
27. Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Activity Report, 2001 (Stockholm, SSF: 2002), 6.
28. Stenlund, op. cit. note 17.
29. Ibid.
30. Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation: Annual Report, 2001 (Stockholm: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2002), 8.
31. Sverker Sörlin, 'Do We Need Research-based Research Financing?,' Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation: Annual Report, 2005 (Stockholm: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2006), 68-75.
32. Ingrid Schild and Sverker Sörlin, Interdisciplinarity in Sweden: A Report to MISTRA, Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research, SISTER Working Paper 18 (Stockholm, 2002).
33. Interview with a university vice-chancellor (confidential), March 2002.
34. One example is the SSF's VINST programme (established in collaboration with the Agency for Innovation Systems), which supports research collaboration between universities and small- and medium-sized enterprises.
35. MISTRA, The First Ten Years: An Evaluation of the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research by an International Committee (Stockholm: MISTRA, 2003).
36. Hans Weinberger, Nätverksentreprenören (Network Entrepreneur), (Falun: Scandbook, 1996).
37. For example, SSF's plan to concentrate support on a small number of research environments was quickly transformed into a practice of giving more evenly distributed support to many graduate schools.
38. With the exception of MISTRA, where these concepts have found fertile ground, at the cost of popular support among Swedish academics.
39. James S. Dietz and Barry Bozeman, 'Academic Careers, Patents, and Productivity: Industry Experience as Scientific and Technical Human Capital, Research Policy, 34 (3), (2005), 349-367.