Der Erkenntnis- und Technologietransfer aus der Wissenschaft (Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen) in die Wirtschaft ist eine der zentralen Quellen für Innovationen. Dessen Bedeutung ist angesichts der großen Wissenschaftsnähe der neuen Hightech-Felder wie Künstliche Intelligenz oder...

This study updates the annual comparative analysis of the performance and structures of the German science system. We use several bibliometric indicators of productivity, impact, and international collaboration to assess Germany's performance for the period 1995-2019 compared against 22...

Sustainable development describes a process of change that promotes the principles of sustainability. Our Common Future, the Rio Declaration, and Agenda 21 are typically considered as the building blocks of the notion of sustainable development. Sustainable development recognizes that growth...

This study updates the annual comparative analysis of the performance and structures of the German science system. We use several bibliometric indicators of productivity, impact, and international collaboration to assess Germany's performance for the period 1995-2019 compared against 22...

Scientific progress has many facets and can be conceptualized in different ways, for example in terms of problem-solving, of truthlikeness or of growth of knowledge. The main claim of the paper is that the most important prerequisite of scientific progress is the institutionalization of...

Knowledge of how science is consumed in public domains is essential for a deeper understanding of the role of science in human society. While science is heavily supported by public funding, common depictions suggest that scientific research remains an isolated or ‘ivory tower’ activity, with...

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),...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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),...

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...

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...

This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their work in exchange for resources. Data from the National Institutes of Health are used to estimate how scientists respond to targeted funding opportunities. Inducing a scientist to change their...

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...

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...

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...

This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the challenges of organizing creativity in the innovation journey in and across different empirical contexts. The articles in this volume extend our understanding of the contextualized social dynamics of organizing...

This study uses data from Academic Analytics to examine gender differences in promotion to associate professor in economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant...

Knowledge of how science is consumed in public domains is essential for a deeper understanding of the role of science in human society. While science is heavily supported by public funding, common depictions suggest that scientific research remains an isolated or 'ivory tower' activity, with...