Are 'STEM from Mars and SSH from Venus'?: Challenging disciplinary stereotypes of research's social value

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 384-400

  Olmos Peñuela, Julia ^a   Benneworth, Paul ^b   Castro Martínez, Elena ^a  

^a INGENIO CSIC UPV Technical University of Valencia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Knowledge transfer; Research policy; Research utilisation; Social sciences and humanities; User engagement

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICS; POLICY ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

SPAIN;

EID: 84902455533     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scipol/sct071     Document Type: Article

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