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To speak about the individual in the research system is an impossible task. Either this mysterious creature is a mystical being, existing only in nostalgic fairy tales, or it is a statistical aggregate, reflecting after disaggregation positions and other distinctions of stratification in hierarchical structures. A third possibility is the exemplary individual, whose biographical (or autobiographical) traits are held up to the rest of us, even though they are not very representative.
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Nowotny, H. (1990). Individual Autonomy and Autonomy of Science: The Place of the Individual in the Research System. In: Cozzens, S.E., Healey, P., Rip, A., Ziman, J. (eds) The Research System in Transition. NATO ASI Series, vol 57. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2091-0_25
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