Volume 35 Issue 4 (2017)
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Research and data-sharing policy in Sweden – neoliberal courses, forces and discourses*
The discourse of openness has proved to be a very powerful instrument for promoting new research policies and the (neoliberal) reforms of higher education in all so-called ‘advanced economies’. It…
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Innovation paradoxes: a review and typology of explanations
The concept of innovation paradoxes refers to a family of anomalous observations demonstrating that relatively high or outstanding innovation efforts lead to either insignificant or undesirable outcomes. While researchers have…
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How to make an artificial satellite out of a nuclear reactor. An exploration of research-technology emergence and management at INVAP*
This paper analyses research-technology (RT) emergence and management at INVAP. INVAP is an Argentinean state-owned enterprise based in Bariloche, Patagonia. Most INVAP decision-makers find it challenging to develop technology to…
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Why invisible boundaries matter: imagined institutions and power
This paper develops an alternative to Erin Meyer’s influential argument that national culture determines how people in a nation behave, thereby creating invisible boundaries that divide nations according to behavioural…