Orienting international science cooperation to meet global 'grand challenges'

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-177

  Keenan, Michael ^a   Cutler, Paul ^b,c   Marks, John ^d   Meylan, Richard ^b,e   Smith, Carthage ^b   Koivisto, Emilia ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b International Council for Science (ICSU)   (France)

^c National Science Foundation   (United States)

^d Royal Society of New Zealand ^*  (Netherlands)

^e Royal New Zealand Plunket Society   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

International council for science; International science cooperation; Research foresight; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; RESEARCH; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 84871366615     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scs019     Document Type: Article

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