Category: ST&I policy

  • International Boundary Organisationsand the Knowledge-Governance Interface

    Abstract Deliberation on Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) for global grand challengestakes place within International Organisations, where complexity, uncertainty, andvalue divergence complicate traditional notions of the science-policy interface. Thisthesis argues that the Knowledge-Governance Interface (KGI) better captures thereciprocal and power-laden relations between knowledge and decision making. Itdevelops an analytical framework for studying KGIs within International…

  • How does Regulatory Uncertainty Shape the Innovation Process? Evidence from the Case of Nanomedicine

    This study investigates the effect of regulatory uncertainty on the translation of scientific discovery on emerging research topics to technical applications in science-driven industry. Our empirical analysis using the case of the US Federal Drug and Food Administration’s release of the report on the regulatory approach to nanomedicine in 2007 shows that; (1) the regulatory…

  • Policy interactions with research trajectories: The case of cyber-physical convergence in manufacturing and industrials

    From the early 2010s, policymakers and firms in advanced industrial economies began introducing approaches to systemically exploit manufacturing and industrial data using the notion of cyber-physical convergence. Three innovation concepts have been especially highlighted: Smart Manufacturing, the Industrial Internet and Industrie 4.0. In parallel, academics have employed these concepts in numerous ways to advance their…

  • A methodology for identifying breakthrough topics using structural entropy

    This research uses link prediction and structural-entropy methods to predict scientific breakthrough topics. Temporal changes in the structural entropy of a knowledge network can be used to identify potential breakthrough topics. This has been done by tracking and monitoring a network’s critical transition points, also known as tipping points. The moment at which a significant…

  • Public innovation: what it is and how it happens through i-Labs

    The complexity involved in the solution for public issues requires innovation. Despite the importance, there is little research to translate theories into practice. The aim of this paper is to investigate innovation for public issues through public innovation laboratories (i-Labs). To achieve this, a systematic literature review from documents published since 2004 up to 2019…

  • The effect of competitive public funding on scientific output: A comparison between China and the EU

    Public funding is believed to play an important role in the development of science and technology. However, whether public funding and, in particular, competitive funding from public agencies actually helps to increase scientific output (i.e. publications) remains a matter of debate. By analysing a dataset of co-publications between China and the EU and a dataset…

  • Neglected tropical diseases in Brazil: lack of correlation between disease burden, research funding and output

    Objectives To assess the correlation between the burden of seven priority neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) included in the Brazilian National Agenda of Priorities in Health Research – tuberculosis, Chagas disease, leprosy, malaria, leishmaniasis, dengue and schistosomiasis – and their respective research funding and output. Methods This retrospective review obtained data on disease burden from the…

  • Parallel or Intersecting Lines? Intelligent Bibliometrics for Investigating the Involvement of Data Science in Policy Analysis

    Efforts to involve data science in policy analysis can be traced back decades but transforming analytic findings into decisions is still far from straightforward task. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding approaches, practices, and research results from many disciplines, which makes it interesting to investigate whether data science and policy analysis are moving in parallel or whether…

  • Do national funding organizations properly address the diseases with the highest burden? – Observations from China and the UK (Full-Text)

    Recent years have witnessed an incipient shift in science policy from a focus mainly on academic excellence to a focus that also takes into account “societal impact”. This shift raises the question as to whether medical research has given proper attention to the diseases imposing the greatest burden on society. Therefore, with the aim of…

  • The relation between research priorities and societal demands: The case of rice (FULL-TEXT)

    To what extent is scientific research related to societal needs? To answer this crucial question systematically we need to contrast indicators of research priorities with indicators of societal needs. We focus on rice research and technology between 1983 and 2012. We combine quantitative methods that allow investigation of the relation between ‘revealed’ research priorities and…