Technical innovation and the universities: divisions of labour in cosmopolitan technical regimes

Disco, Cornelis; Rip, Arie; Meulen, Bernd van der

doi:10.1177/053901892031003003

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“…Moreover, they enable the codification of knowledge through making tacit knowledge explicit, such that localized knowledge is flushed out of the research system (Keating, Limoges, and Cambrosio 1999) through a process of "filtering" to determine what is in and what is out (Busch 2011). Thus, standards are the result of a shared or "cosmopolitan" technological regime within a domain of inquiry (Disco, Rip, and van der Meulen 1992) and help establish field-level expectations and practice. However, it is equally important to understand that a field of science is always on the move as new experimental techniques, instrumentation and materials are deployed to answer the very questions that earlier experiments threw up.…”

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Standardizing work as a recursive process: shaping the embryonic stem cell field

Eriksson

Webster

2015

New Genetics and Society

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In this paper, we examine processes of standardization and their role in helping to stabilize human embryonic stem cells as biological objects and in building the stem cell field itself. Drawing on empirical data from the emerging embryonic stem cell field, we explore the various arenas within which standardizing work goes on and how these relate to each other as different types of labour within and beyond the lab, one to do with stabilizing the bioobject and a second to do with its comparability and identity within a wider domain. Standardizing work reflects the recursive relation between these processes which are discussed via the concepts of bio-objectification and bio-identification.

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Standardizing work as a recursive process: shaping the embryonic stem cell field

Eriksson

Webster

2015

New Genetics and Society

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“…This view was amended with a sociological analysis of institutional and material structuration processes and how they linked up with cognitive structures to form "technological regimes" (Disco et al 1992, Rip 1992a. Socially negotiated and historically embedded technological performance criteria and institutional infrastructures were found to have restrictive effects on innovation, meaning that radical novelty could only emerge in "protected spaces" (van den…”

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Performative policy studies: realizing “transition management”

Voß

2014

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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The paper analyses the relations between policy studies and public policy. It traces how they are constitutively entangled. Conceptually, this builds on a notion of performativity that has been developed in science studies. The performativity of policy studies is explored in a case study of the innovation journey of 'transition management' as a model for governing sociotechnical change. The paper shows how practices of knowledge production and policy-making take shape in interaction with the model and how a specialised research field co-evolves with political alliances and policy programmes. They interact in the process of realising transition management, both by establishing the model as collective knowledge and by materially enacting it. In this interweaving with public policy policy studies contribute to creating the reality that they describe. The conclusions discuss 'realising' as a mode of governance.

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“…Academics can assimilate this into their normal way of life; their substantial funding and their mainstream research interests continue to be in the public sector (Morris, 2002b). There are examples from chemistry and engineering (Rip, 1997;Disco et al, 1992;Blumenthal et al, 1997) suggesting that biological scientists may not be typical in this respect. There is however also evidence of a choice of roles, with many preferring to remain academic, in outlook and in profession (Atkinson-Grosjean, 2005;Rosenberg and Nelson, 1994;Bird and Allen, 1989), and within life sciences indicative evidence of much pedestrian industryoriented research (Blumenthal et al, 1996(Blumenthal et al, , 1997Howells et al, 1998;Cohen et al, 2001).…”

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Scientists’ coping strategies in an evolving research system: the case of life scientists in the UK

Morris

Rip

2006

sci public policy

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Scientists in academia have struggled to adjust to a policy climate of uncertain funding and loss of freedom from direction and control. How UK life scientists have negotiated this challenge, and with what consequences for their research and the research system, is the empirical entrance point of this paper. We find that policy impacts can be modulated and buffered by strategies and compromises devised and deployed at research performer level. This shifts conceptualisation from terms of responses to one of more or less proactive strategies of scientists and science organisations which add up, intentionally or unintentionally, to shifts in the overall system.

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Technical innovation and the universities: divisions of labour in cosmopolitan technical regimes

Cited by 22 publications

References 12 publications

Standardizing work as a recursive process: shaping the embryonic stem cell field

Standardizing work as a recursive process: shaping the embryonic stem cell field

Performative policy studies: realizing “transition management”

Scientists’ coping strategies in an evolving research system: the case of life scientists in the UK

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