Science and Technology in History

Inkster, Ian

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-21339-9

Cited by 91 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The Hellenic Industry is one of the largest industrial enterprises of Greece (Loukis et al, 2011). Since 1975 it has been one of the major state-owned defence companies in Greece with 3,000 employees and an established reputation in the international market as a reliable service provider and business partner in the field of combat and civilian aircrafts (Inkster, 2017). Firm 2 has (co)authored in total 90 publications while firms (#3 to #9) have corresponding affiliations in more than 30 scientific publications each.…”

Section: Exploring the Intellectual Capital Of A High Tech Industry: ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Intellectual Capital of a High Tech Industry: A Case Study of the Scientific Outputs of Defence Firms

Sioumalas-Christodoulou

2021

ijfirm

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose: This paper explores the intellectual capital of the Greek defence industry by performing bibliometric analysis on the (co)authored scientific publications of defence firms. In the context of knowledge economy, scientific outputs are important indicators of the respective intellectual capital, a source of probable future economic benefits that can be retained and managed by firms. Design/methodology/approach: In order to identify the Greek defence firms three data sources were employed: the Registry of Manufacturers of Defence Material, the Greek Defence Material Association (SEKPY) and the Hellenic Association of Space Industry (H-ASI). The total number of firms amounts to 169. Out of this population, 42 firms were identified within bibliometric databases such as Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). Such firms, during the period of 1987 to 2021, have (co)authored 767 scientific publications with 848 different institutional affiliations and fall under 24 different subject areas. Findings: Findings indicate that the number of scientific publications shows fluctuant upward trends over time. In terms of industrial classification, the NACE codes of these over performing firms overlap the respective bibliometric Subject Area Classifications, indicating a coordination between scientific and industrial priorities. At cross-country level, results suggest that affiliated institutional sectors such as the Business Sector and Higher Education Sector contributed equally in terms of scientific output, indicating a strong industryacademia collaboration. Network analysis points out to specific collaboration patterns with the

show abstract

Section: Exploring the Intellectual Capital Of A High Tech Industry: ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Intellectual Capital of a High Tech Industry: A Case Study of the Scientific Outputs of Defence Firms

Sioumalas-Christodoulou

2021

ijfirm

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…During the period 1850-1880, at the level of higher technical education, the designs of the colonial capitalist state were manifest in the establishment of technical schools and colleges explicitly oriented toward producing a class of technical personnel trained in public works of engineering essential for the sustenance and reproduction of colonial rule. The changing place of Britain in the international economy required that the colonial state be innovative in the founding of formal technical institutions (Inkster 1991).…”

Section: The Modernity Of Science and The Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Globalization of Knowledge in History

Renn

2020

The Evolution of Knowledge

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This volume presents results of an interdisciplinary research project on the globalization of knowledge. The project is centered at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. It was launched in 2007 at the 97 th Dahlem Workshop on Globalization of Knowledge and its Consequences, a Dahlem Conference hosted by the Free University Berlin and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The Dahlem Conferences, with their unique mode of scholarly interaction, have played a key role in fostering an interdisciplinary cooperation that covers a vast array of disciplines, cultures and historical periods. I am grateful to Katharina Ochse, as well as to my colleagues from the Advisory Board of the Dahlem Conferences, for initiating us into the procedures of this workshop model. The numerous documents, papers, commentaries, reviews and discussion statements that have been produced in the process have all turned out to be essential in producing this volume.The project is part of the research program of a historical epistemology whose aim is to contribute also to the reflexivity of present science and its institutions. It pursues a comparative history of knowledge in which present processes of globalization are conceived as the outcome of historical developments and their interactions. The four research foci of the project have been chosen such that theoretical claims can be validated with reference to outstanding historical phases in which knowledge production, transmission and transformation were critical for advancing processes of intercultural exchange. The theoretical framework developed in the course of the project comprises a core set of concepts which should be extended and revised in the course of further research.The scholarly network, established in 2007, has since been significantly expanded. The participating scholars have collaborated in a variety of meetings and exchanges dedicated to the production of this working group volume. In addition to the papers originally submitted at the Dahlem Conference, a number of invited contributions have been integrated. All contributions have been peer-reviewed and also partly revised by members of an internal board, which met on several occasions to discuss the overall results of the cooperation and their presentation in the introductory survey chapters to each of the four parts of this volume. The internal board comprised

show abstract

“…The research group at Bell Telephone employed 100 scientists by the end of the century. By the late 1890s some 4,000 trained chemists were working in the German chemical industry [11]. In England, it has been claimed [12] that there were scarcely any metallurgical works without an analytical laboratory.…”

Section: Fin De Sieclementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fourteen British firms were operating transnationally by 1913, including some in high-technology areas such as oil (Shell), synthetic textiles (Courtaulds), rubber (Dunlop) and armaments (Vickers). At the same date, seventeen European and over thirty American companies had overseas interests [11].…”

Section: Fin De Sieclementioning

confidence: 99%

A century of scientific and technical information

Vickery¹

1999

Journal of Documentation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper attempts to provide an outline account of the development and context of scientific and technical communication during the twentieth century. The main channels and forms of communication are reviewed, and their changing contributions to the overall pattern of information flow. The ever-increasing volume and diversity of scientific and technical information are emphasised. The paper concludes with some reflections on what may be learnt from this history.In science, by a fiction as remarkable as any to be found in law, what has once been published, even though it be in the Russian language, is spoken of as known, and it is too often forgotten that the rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.So Lord Rayleigh told the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1884 [1]. Ten years later, H.E. Armstrong was telling the Chemical Society of London that 'chemical literature is fast becoming unmanageable and uncontrollable from its very vastness. Not only is the number of papers increasing from year to year, but new journals are constantly being established. Something must be done in order to assist chemists to remain in touch with their subject and to retain their hold on the literature generally' [2]. Such complaints were far from new. In 1807 we find Thomas Young surveying the scene: 'When we contemplate the astonishing magnitude [of the literature] in any department of science … there is the greatest reason to apprehend that, from the continual multiplication of new essays which are merely repetitions of others that have been forgotten, the sciences will shortly be overwhelmed by their own unwieldy bulk' [3].During the nineteenth century there were published about two million scientific and technical papers [4], together with the scientific texts (perhaps 10% or 20% of the total) among the six million books published in that century [5]. During the twentieth century (depending on what growth rate is assumed) there were published in science and technology perhaps 100 or even 200 million papers, and many millions of books. Scientific information and its problems, both subjective and objective, loom ever larger.'In 1896', Bernal reckoned, 'there were perhaps in the world some 50,000 people who between them carried on the whole tradition of science, not more than 15,000 of whom were responsible for advancing knowledge by research ' [6]. Probably this estimate did not include industrial scientists -Reily [7] suggested that there were 100,000 scientists and engineers in 1900. In 1990, according to the

show abstract

Science and Technology in History

Cited by 91 publications

References 0 publications

Exploring the Intellectual Capital of a High Tech Industry: A Case Study of the Scientific Outputs of Defence Firms

Exploring the Intellectual Capital of a High Tech Industry: A Case Study of the Scientific Outputs of Defence Firms

The Globalization of Knowledge in History

A century of scientific and technical information

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About