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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Academic scientists"”.
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Intellectual Freedom of Academic Scientists: Cases of Political Challenges Involving Federally Sponsored Research on National Environmental Policies
This study contributes to the literature on the academic profession's intellectual freedom. Drawing significantly on two methodological approaches, comparative case study and grounded theory, this dissertation examines three controversies in which government officials challenged academic …
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The organization of research activities in industry and academia : implications for the commercialization of university research
… timing of entry into commercial activities by an academic research team, and analyze the returns and costs of these activities. I compare the behavior and performance of the academic team to an industrial research team. The two teams are assumed to differ in their objectives, governance modes, and …
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A contemporary history of the origins and development of UK Biobank, 1998-2005
… I conducted 76 oral history interviews with academic scientists directly and indirectly involved in UK Biobank, representatives of all four funding bodies, and representatives of UK Biobank Limited (the company set up to manage UK Biobank). I also conducted archival analysis of the MRC’s …
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Making the cut : the rate and direction of CRISPR innovation
… data from the primary distributor of CRISPR to academic scientists, Addgene, the study shows that the relative proportion of scientists focusing on editing mammalian cells after the introduction of CRISPR increased over their counterparts working in bacteria and other eukaryotes.
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Scientific research and economic activity : the perceptions of academic and industrial scientists of the production and capitalization of knowledge
… of university-industry collaboration and academic knowledge capitalization. The analysis showed that academic scientists who received commercial research funding have relatively positive views about university-industry relations than those who do not receive such funds. However, one cannot …
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Bridging the innovation gap through funding : the case of MIT Deshpande Center
The idea of gap-funding program, in which academic scientists are given research funding for developing proof-of-concept and prototype, has recently attracted attention as a policy measure of commercializing academic science. While the earliest programs of its kind were initiated about a decade …
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The mascot and the refugee : survival strategies for the new urban jungle
… and its habitat, environmental activists, academic scientists, and city wildlife managers do their best to save the salamander, and to leverage its rarity to save Barton Springs. The story of each species illuminates the many different ways in which we relate to the animals that live …
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Cohering with the Crowd: How Audiences Shape the Quasi-Scientific Process of Entrepreneurship
… those theories through experimentation. Unlike academic scientists, however, entrepreneurs often develop and test theories in collaboration with an audience. The impact of audiences on the quasi-scientific process is brought into sharp relief on the livestreaming platform Twitch.tv, where …
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The Quantification of Society. A Study of a Swedish Research Institute and Survey-Based Social Science
… time to the 1950s and the creation of the first academic surveys. This was also the moment in history when random samples were established. Here, the impact of the creation of the welfare state and the role of science in this political project is discussed and related to the expansion of the …