Institutional Conditions and Changing Research Practices in Switzerland

The policy of testing hypotheses in Chilean science. The role of a hypothesis-driven research funding programme in the installation of a hypothesis-driven experimental system in visual neuroscience

“…There is a growing interest in studying the impact of funding and authority changes on research content and practices (Laudel 2006;Hicks and Katz 2011;Hicks 2012;Whitley 2014;Benninghoff et al 2014;Gläser et al 2014;Laudel and Gläser 2014;Gläser and Laudel 2016;Whitley, Gläser, and Laudel 2018;Franssen et al 2018). It is not clear how and to what extent funding policies, with a predictable impact on researchers' decisions as social agents, can also determine the epistemic properties of research.…”

“…The second lesson we propose to derive from our case study is the following. During the last decades, there has been a growing interest in studying the impact of funding policies on research content and practices (Laudel 2006;Hicks and Katz 2011;Hicks 2012;Whitley 2014;Benninghoff et al 2014;Gläser et al 2014;Laudel and Gläser 2014;Gläser and Laudel 2016;Whitley, Gläser, and Laudel 2018;Franssen et al 2018). For example, it has been observed that changes in funding criteria can induce changes in the experimental or theoretical nature of research (Laudel 2006), but it is not clear what mechanisms are involved and their scope.…”

Uma ciência coordenada? Revisitando tentativas de coordenar a pesquisa acadêmica

“…Las redes entendidas como un modo de coordinación son susceptibles de financiamiento estatal por su capacidad de tender puentes entre diferentes tipos de organizaciones, gracias a su estructura más ligera que las de las organizaciones formales (Lepori, 2011). Un ejemplo de financiación de redes de políticas en el campo de la investigación son los esquemas nacionales de excelencia como el de la federación suiza (Benninghoff et al, 2014), la iniciativa de excelencia alemana (Meyer et al, 2019) o las redes de centros de Excelencia de Canadá (Clark, 2013;Sa y Litwin, 2011).…”