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- Sefyrin, Johanna, 1972-, et al.
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Addressing digital diversity: Care matters in vulnerable digital relations in a Swedish library context
- 2021
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - : Oxford University Press. - 0302-3427 .- 1471-5430. ; 48:6, s. 841-848
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As societies become increasingly digitalized, the requirements for inclusion continuously increase. In a Swedish public, municipal, library context,it is common that individuals who face difficulties related to digital technologies come and ask for help. In this paper, we explore care in relationsconstituted by individuals and digital technologies and analyze how care matters for digital inclusion. It builds on field studies in a Swedish librarycontext and includes qualitative interviews, focus groups, and observations of employees working to support individuals with digital needs. Inorder to analyze the material, we apply the concept of care. In the concluding discussion, we argue first for viewing individuals as sociomaterialentanglements of relations constituted by humans and non-humans, second that these soc
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- Sjöö, Karolin, 1983, et al.
(författare)
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Gender mainstreaming research funding: a study of effects on STEM research proposals
- 2023
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1471-5430 .- 0302-3427. ; 50:2, s. 304-317
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Policymakers increasingly try to steer researchers to choose topics of societal concern and to conduct research in ways that reflect such concerns. One increasingly common approach is prompting researchers to integrate certain perspectives into the content of their research, but little is known about the effects of this governance modality. We analyze 1,189 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research proposals submitted to the Swedish Research Council which, starting in 2020, required all applicants to consider including the sex and/or gender perspectives in their research. We identify three overarching strategies upon which researchers rely (content-, performer-, and impact-centered) and analyze the ways in which researchers across disciplines motivate, through text, the inclusion or exclusion of these perspectives. Based on our findings, we discuss the scope of the desired effect(s) of a requirement of this kind.
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- Timmermans, Bram, et al.
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Coordinated unbundling: A way to stimulate entrepreneurship through public procurement for innovation
- 2013
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1471-5430 .- 0302-3427. ; 40:5, s. 674-685
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Public procurement for innovation is a matter of using public demand to trigger innovation. Empirical studies have demonstrated that demand-based policy instruments can be considered to be a powerful tool in stimulating innovative processes among existing firms. However, the existing literature has not focused on the role this policy instrument can play in the promotion of (knowledge-intensive) entrepreneurship. This paper investigates this link in more detail and introduces the concept of coordinated unbundling as a strategy that can facilitate this purpose. We also present a framework for organising public procurement for innovation around this unbundling strategy and provide a set of challenges that need to be addressed.
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- Trencher, G., et al.
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Beyond the Third Mission: Exploring the Emerging University Function of Co-creation for Sustainability
- 2014
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1471-5430 .- 0302-3427. ; 41:2, s. 151-179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores a global trend where universities are collaborating with local government, industry and civic organisations to advance the sustainable transformation of a specific town, city or region. With empirical evidence, we argue that this function of ‘cocreation for sustainability’ could be interpreted as the seeds of an emerging, new mission for the university. We demonstrate that this still evolving mission differs significantly to the economic focus of the third mission and conventional technology transfer practices, which we argue, should be critically examined. After defining five channels through which a university can fulfil the emerging mission, we analyse two frontrunner ‘transformative institutions’ engaged in co-creating social transformations in pursuit of materialising sustainable development in specific locations and regions. This study seeks to add to the debate on the third mission and triple-helix partnerships. It does so by incorporating sustainable development and place-based co-creation with government, industry and civil society.
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- Wigren, Caroline, et al.
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Mind the gap and bridge the gap: research excellence and diffusion of academic knowledge in Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 1471-5430 .- 0302-3427. ; 38:6, s. 481-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to highlight the changing and diversifying nature of academic work related to various forms of knowledge production and diffusion. Focusing on the changing research policy landscape in Sweden, three interrelated questions are investigated: what academics do in terms of commercialisation and public dissemination; how they perform these activities; and why they engage in these activities. Based on data from a recent survey with over 10,000 academics in Sweden, we identify and analyse 'high-performing' researchers, in the context of the commercialisation and public dissemination of their academic work. The quantitative analysis is supplemented by qualitative interviews with scientists at strong research environments in Sweden. We argue that there is a virtuous cycle connecting different academic activities in strong research environments research excellence and excellence in knowledge production on one hand, and knowledge diffusion activities, such as commercialisation and public dissemination, on the other hand.
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- Yoon, Haeyeon, et al.
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Do environmental regulations affect FDI decisions? The pollution haven hypothesis revisited
- 2021
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - : Oxford University Press. - 0302-3427 .- 1471-5430. ; 48:1, s. 122-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study attempts to verify the pollution haven hypothesis by investigating the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). It uses Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for the period 2009–15. This study not only considers the stringency when measuring the degree of the host country’s environmental regulations but also the enforcement of these environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven’s effects indicate moving the polluting production stages from the home country to other (host) countries, we differentiate between investments in the ‘production’ part from those in the non-production part using location information about the host country. The main results of a FDI’s model estimation show that the stricter the regulations in host countries in Asia, the lower the FDI both intensively and extensively in these countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of a pollution haven. However, before we separate FDI into the production and non-production parts, the effects of environmental regulations on FDI are hindered by FDI in the non-production part. The results indicate that while environmental regulations are determinants of FDI in the production part, they do not have a significant effect on FDI decisions when the entire FDI is considered.
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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Pathways to the entrepreneurial university: towards a global convergence
- 2008
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - 1471-5430. ; 35:9, s. 681-695
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyzes the transition to the entrepreneurial university as part of a broader shift to a knowledge-based economy, arising from a complex interplay between exogenous (top-down) and endogenous factors (bottom-up) of a more or less similar nature, combined in different ways in different countries. Drawing on the experience of four countries (US, Sweden, Japan and Brazil) with different institutional trajectories and degrees of academic entrepreneurial transformation, under varying degrees of state control and levels of university initiative, we argue that a global convergence is currently taking shape toward entrepreneurial universities playing a central role in a knowledge-based economy that moves beyond etatism and pure market relations to an intermediate position within a triple helix regime. The role of public venture capital in financing the transition to the entrepreneurial university and its possible interventions in a counter-cyclical business model, which is also active in periods of economic downturn, are also discussed.
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- Borras, Susana, et al.
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Introduction to special issue on learning, innovation systems and policy in honour of Bengt-Ake Lundvall
- 2011
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - 1471-5430. ; 38:9, s. 666-668
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This special issue celebrates the work of Bengt-Ake Lundvall on his 70th birthday. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a key player among a small group of academics in the USA and Europe that developed a new, systemic approach to the study of the interactions between science, innovation, and policy. He contributed to the popularity of the approach in the policy community in several ways, among other things through his period as Deputy Director at the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD between 1992 and 1995, and through his later work for the European Commission, as evidenced among other things by the highly influential booklet, The Globalising Learning Economy: Implications for Innovation Policy. His strong emphasis on learning, a hallmark of Lundvall's approach, is also evident in much of his recent work. This issue has six papers written by some of his collaborators.
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- Fagerberg, Jan, et al.
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National innovation systems: the emergence of a new approach
- 2011
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - 1471-5430. ; 38:9, s. 669-679
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The term 'national innovation systems' surfaced for the first time in print during the late 1980s and, in the years that followed, several important contributions on this topic appeared. This paper investigates the role that this new literature plays within innovation studies and the world of science more generally and discusses the sources for its emergence. With the help of expert assessments, the three most important contributions to the 'national innovation systems' literature are identified. Then the citations to these works in scholarly journals in the Web of Science are presented and the characteristics of the 'national innovation systems' literature, as compared with other areas of research, are analyzed.
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