Overview
- Integrates legal and social science approaches to governance
- Comparative analysis of the governance of Higher Education and Research Systems
- Develops a comparative tool, the "governance equalizer"
- Covers the multi-level characteristics of research systems and their governance patterns
- Tests empirically prominent theses on the new dynamics of science (such as "mode 2 of knowledge production" and "triple helix" of research collaboration)
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Higher education and research institutions are confronted with changing and sometimes contradictory claims from state, industry and society, today. They have to face growing volatility and an acceleration and internationalization of the knowledge process. This book undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the German research system. The book is the outcome of a large interdisciplinary project. It analyzes the reforms in the German research system from an integrated perspective of law, economics and social sciences. The case of Germany is compared to reforms in other European countries such as Austria, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The study emphasizes an integrated approach considering the research function of universities as well as the non-university research sector. The focus is on the integration of external and internal governance. First, we pose the question how external competition and control mechanisms do influence internal governance of research institutions and universities and vice versa. Second, we discuss the consequences of these impacts on research.
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Section B
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Forms of Governance in Research Organizations
Book Subtitle: Disciplinary Approaches, Interfaces and Integration
Editors: Dorothea Jansen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5831-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5830-1Published: 01 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7450-8Published: 06 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5831-8Published: 14 March 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 242
Topics: Public Law, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, R & D/Technology Policy, Business and Management, general, Political Science, Sociology, general