Opportunities in the 'post-academic' world

Vogt, Thomas; Baird, Davis; Robinson, Chris

doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.164

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“…In contrast to academic driven research, context driven research is, so to speak, geared towards application from the very beginning. Although these changes have not necessarily been welcomed as desirable, the rise of the nano field has been taken to represent a paradigmatic exemplar of the reality of such changes (see for instance [2, 13, 20, 33]). As a result, according to these analyses, novel large and high priority fields like nano impose radical, and possibly even irreversible, changes in the way science is performed, organised and managed.…”

Section: What Is Nano?—once Againmentioning

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Centre and Periphery of Nano—A Norwegian Context

2011

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This work describes the nano field in Norway as currently emerging in the dynamics between two forms of nano research activities described along a centre-periphery axis. 1) There are strategic research initiatives committed to redeem the envisioned potential of the field by means of social and material reorganisation of existing research activities. This activity is seen as central as it is one of our premises that the standard circulating nano vision implies such a work of reorganisation. The fact that nano is often taken as a paradigmatic example of the shift from Mode-1 to Mode-2 research, supports this assumption. 2) In parallel to this activity, a wide variety of research projects pursuing nano strategies are being funded. We regard such research activity as peripheral in so far as the activity is not marked by being committed to the circulating nano vision, as may often be the case. In the process of reorganising, this article argues, the research activity at the periphery provides a crucial arena for discussing and validating what is to be achieved through the work of reorganisation that takes place at the centre. Our analysis is informed by two Norwegian cases. We examine a major nano research initiative at a Norwegian university as a centre and a research project utilising nanoparticles in fish vaccines as a periphery.

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Section: What Is Nano?—once Againmentioning

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Centre and Periphery of Nano—A Norwegian Context

2011

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“…In particular, there is no reason why science conforming to the Mertonian norms need not be interdisciplinary (a feature usually ascribed only to Mode 2 research). Nanoscience -the intensely interdisciplinary fi eld of research fi eld in which I work -was described by Vogt et al (2007) as an exemplar of Mode 2 research in that it ostensibly has a strong emphasis on 'how', i.e. applicationdriven, rather than 'why' questions.…”

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