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- Eriksson, Hjalmar, et al.
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Evaluation of the Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project 2006–2014
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a report on the evaluation of the Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project 2006-2014. The study has consisted in evaluating the types and extent of added value from the Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project, and to determine what additional added value the participation could supply for the Swedish authority.It can be concluded from the study that the impacts from the Halden Reactor Project are extensive and wide ranging, reaching beyond the scope of what has been possible to cover in the evaluation. This limitation is mainly due to the long history and continuity of the collaboration, extending far beyond the scope of the study. The evaluation further concludes that the Halden Reactor Project has come to play a systemic role for the nuclear sector in Sweden, supplying significant portions of the data underlying safety oriented research and development within the areas concerned. These impacts have mainly been realized in industry, and are promoted in particular by voluntary, bottom-up coordination and engagement by industry stakeholders. Academia has seen little added value from the Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project, while the public sector has benefited somewhat, however, its engagement has been limited in comparison with peer countries Finland and Switzerland.The evaluation team recommends that the Swedish stakeholders continue funding the participation in the Halden Reactor Project. Additionally, the Swedish authority’s funding of research infrastructures in general should be safeguarded by acknowledging this type of investment in the research strategy. The distinct and fundamental role of research infrastructures in innovation systems is being increasingly recognized, and the participation in the Halden Reactor Project is a clear example of the value of such institutions for the continuous expansion of knowledge. Furthermore, the Swedish strategy for benefiting from the Halden Reactor Project should be further elaborated, taking into account the possible actions of strengthening coordination, increasing funding to supplementary domestic research, and reviewing the responsibilities of the officials administering the Swedish participation.
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- Gribbe, Johan, 1979, et al.
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The Emergence and Growth of Materials Science in Swedish Universities
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Ingår i: Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. - : University of California Press. - 1939-182X .- 1939-1811. ; 47:4, s. 459-493
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The cross-disciplinary field of materials science emerged and grew to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century, drawing theoretical and experimental strength from the rapid progress in several natural sciences disciplines and connecting to many industrial applications. In this article, we chronicle and analyze how materials science established itself in Swedish universities in the 1960s and after. We build on previous historical accounts of the growth of materials science elsewhere, especially in the United States, and the conceptual guidance that these studies offer. We account for the emergence and growth of materials science in Sweden from the early influences brought back by academics from postdoc stays in the United States, through the creation of the first funding programs in the late 1970s, to the breakthrough of materials science in Sweden in the 1990s and its growth to a true area of strength and priority in Swedish science today. In line with previous studies, we highlight the role of funding agencies, providing the means for new cross -disciplinary activities across and between traditional disciplinary structures, and the role of new instrumentation, providing new experimental opportunities and uniting disciplinarily disparate research activities around common goals, as crucial in the process. Also, the role of entrepreneurially minded individuals is evident in the story: materials science was developed in Sweden largely by a new generation of scientists who established new activities within existing organizational structures, and thus accomplished long-term institutional change in a well -established field and system.
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- Hallonsten, Olof
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Big Science Transformed : Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States
- 2016
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse. Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding science, and their impact on a number of new accelerator and reactor-based facilities that have come to prominence in materials science and the life sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be of great interest to historians, sociologists and philosophers of science.
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- Hallonsten, Olof, et al.
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Collaborative technological innovation in an academic, user-oriented Big Science facility
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Ingår i: Industry and Higher Education. - : SAGE Publications. - 0950-4222 .- 2043-6858. ; 31:6, s. 399-408
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The innovation systems framework enables a view of innovation as a process involving different actors in different constellations, but it has nonetheless most often been paired with quantitatively oriented studies of patents, licences and spin-offs. In this article, the authors use two cases of technological innovation at an academically organized but user-oriented research facility for experiments in a variety of natural science disciplines. They analyse the academic organization of the lab and its durable and symbiotic relationship with its user community and commercial firms in relevant technological areas to show that technological innovation with scientific as well as commercial relevance can take place in constellations where trust and mutual benefit have replaced formalized practices such as patenting. The article contributes to our understanding of how contemporary Big Science is organized and how it can support technology transfer and the commercialization of research and technologies.
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- Hallonsten, Olof
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Corporate culture has no place in academia
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 538:7623, s. 7-7
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