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…