The Changing Governance of Japanese Public Science

Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kneller, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Governance; Government authority; Japan; University of tokyo; University research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921591531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590193.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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