Ausgehend von der Erläuterung, welche Bedeutungen und Charakteristika der Begriff "Wissenschaft" im Allgemeinen umfasst, wird im Besonderen die konkrete Eigenart der Wissenschaft von der Wirtschaft bestimmt. Zunächst wird auf die Sprachgebundenheit menschlichen Denkens und Erkennens verwiesen,...

Die vorliegende quantitative Studie widmet sich dem Thema Open-Science-Praktiken bei Wirtschaftsforschenden an deutschen Hochschulen. Befragt wurden insgesamt 300 Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Fächern Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftsinformatik,...

Wissenschaft und Politik bilden keine Einheit, sondern voneinander unabhängige Teilsysteme. Politische Verantwortung heißt daher auch, sich nicht hinter der Wissenschaft zu verstecken.

This paper presents a framework to understand the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, focusing on the conceptual impact. We note the continuing dissatisfaction with the quality and effects of science-policy interactions in both theory and practice. We critique the...

Although science has been an incredibly powerful and revolutionary force, it is not clear whether science is suited to performance under pressure; generally, science achieves best in its usual comfort zone of patience, caution, and slowness. But if science is organized knowledge and acts as a...

The scientific community faces an everlasting pressure to publish internationally. This study measures the tendency to publish in globalized journals on a large dataset of journals indexed in the Scopus database. Based on data on 34 964 journals indexed in the Scopus Source List (Scopus 2018),...

In August 2019, a five-day-summer school on science-based policy advice was held at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig. The summer school introduced several theories of science-based policy advice, practical examples for science-based policy advice, as well as an exercise on how to write...

Although science has been an incredibly powerful and revolutionary force, it is not clear whether science is suited to performance under pressure; generally, science achieves best in its usual comfort zone of patience, caution, and slowness. But if science is organized knowledge and acts as a...

The scientific community faces an everlasting pressure to publish internationally. This study measures the tendency to publish in globalized journals on a large dataset of journals indexed in the Scopus database. Based on data on 34 964 journals indexed in the Scopus Source List (Scopus 2018),...

Ausgehend von der Erläuterung, welche Bedeutungen und Charakteristika der Begriff "Wissenschaft" im Allgemeinen umfasst, wird im Besonderen die konkrete Eigenart der Wissenschaft von der Wirtschaft bestimmt. Zunächst wird auf die Sprachgebundenheit menschlichen Denkens und Erkennens verwiesen,...

This is the sixth in a series of studies looking at the UK public's attitudes to science, scientists and science policy. Public attitudes to science 2019 (PAS 2019) uses a mix of research and allows some trends to be tracked as far back as 1988. Overall, the survey results show that attitudes...

We propose a Unified Growth model that analyzes the role of the Scienti fic Revolution in the takeoff to sustained modern economic growth. Basic scientific knowledge is a necessary input in the production of applied knowledge, which, in turn, fuels productivity growth and leads to rising...

This paper presents a framework to understand the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, focusing on the conceptual impact. We note the continuing dissatisfaction with the quality and effects of science-policy interactions in both theory and practice. We critique the...

Ein Teil der Soziologie will sich seit jeher von jeglicher Einmischung in die Praxis distanzieren, ein anderer Teil in die Gesellschaft hineinwirken. Im ersten Fall begreift die Soziologie sich als Wissenschaft, die von Außen auf die Gesellschaft schaut. Im zweiten Fall kann sie sich ihrer...

In what seems to be a “post-truth” era this paper argues that management theory development is necessary to provide insights into how to manage the academic research, or discovery system, itself, as it no longer seems clear that its explicit purpose, as per Lakatos’s argument, is the...

We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million books, with the use of techniques and algorithms from machine learning. We focus on a specific scientific breakthrough, the theory of evolution through natural selection by...

Contextualizing Openness offers a fascinating look at Open Science and the democratization of knowledge in international development and social transformation with a focus on the Global South. This volume presents contri­butions from the 12 projects that form the Open and Collaborative Science...

Der Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD) hat sich mit der Frage auseinandergesetzt, warum aus den Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften (SVW) kein Vorhaben in den deutschen nationalen Roadmap-Verfahren (2013 und 2018) eingereicht und bewilligt wurde. Der Text erläutert...

Governments rely extensively on expertise, and arguably many of the major accomplishments over the last 50 years reflect the ideas and involvement of experts. Yet expertise in world politics is increasingly contested. What are the factors which influence the future of state to defer to expertise...

Digitalisierung und neue Innovationszyklen stellen wissensintensive Branchen vor große Herausforderungen. Neue Innovationsstrategien und neue Geschäftsmodelle ersetzen konventionelle Wertschöpfungsmuster. Der daraus resultierende Veränderungsdruck betrifft sowohl die interne...

Governments rely extensively on expertise, and arguably many of the major accomplishments over the last 50 years reflect the ideas and involvement of experts. Yet expertise in world politics is increasingly contested. What are the factors which influence the future of state to defer to expertise...

Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen “applicants” in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...

Innovation und Wissenschaft haben in Deutschland einen hohen Stellenwert. Wirtschaft, private Wissenschaftsförderer und der Staat arbeiten bei der Förderung der beiden Bereiche eng zusammen. Gemeinsam haben sie ihre Aufwendungen für Forschung und Entwicklung in den letzten Jahren deutlich...

"Statistical adequacy" is an important prerequisite for securing reliable inference in empirical modelling. This paper argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are based on statistically adequate models, i.e., models...

Due to the advanced technology associated with Big Data, data availability and computing power, most banks or lending institutions are renewing their business models. Credit risk predictions, monitoring, model reliability and effective loan processing are key to decision-making and transparency....

This paper provides a review of some connecting literature in Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business, Computing, and Big Data. We then discuss some research that is related to the six cognate disciplines. Academics could develop theoretical models and subsequent econometric and...

The world has changed tremendously in the past decades. Changes in technology as well as globalization and ferocious business competition phenomena have permeated the workplace and the academic world. These changes and phenomena compel the academic world to adjust itself correspondingly in order...

Digitalisierung und neue Innovationszyklen stellen wissensintensive Branchen vor große Herausforderungen. Neue Innovationsstrategien und neue Geschäftsmodelle ersetzen konventionelle Wertschöpfungsmuster. Der daraus resultierende Veränderungsdruck betrifft sowohl die interne...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to present the evolution of academic research in venture capital (VC) research between 1990 and 2014. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzes the most influential journals in VC research by analyzing papers, which were published on the Web of Science...

The paper provides a review of the literature that connects Big Data, Computational Science, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Management, and Psychology, and discusses some research that is related to the seven disciplines. Academics could develop theoretical models and subsequent econometric and...

We investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and what types of journal articles are eventually replicated. We find that from 1974 to 2014 0.10% of publications in the Top 50 economics journals were replications. We take into account the results of replication...

The paper provides a review of the literature that connects Big Data, Computational Science, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Management, and Psychology, and discusses research issues that are related to the various disciplines. Academics could develop theoretical models and subsequent econometric...

1. Science, Development and Africa -- 2. Science from Africa: Historical and Contemporary Trends -- 3. Production of Science in Africa: Decisive Indicators -- 4. Scientific Research Areas -- 5. Collaboration: Importance for Africa -- 6. Policy Matters in Science and Development -- 7. Science and...