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The Collaborative Era in Science

Governing the Network

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Authors:
  1. Caroline S. Wagner

    1. Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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  • Argues that the global network of science has ushered in a new era of collaboration that is changing the playbook for science policy
  • Relies on complexity theory and empirical data to describe the rise of the collaborative era and its internal dynamics
  • Focuses on policy implications for a host of timely issues, ranging from the economic rise of China and global governance, to patent law, copyright, and open access

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Science in the Age of Knowledge Abundance

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Scale and Scope of Global Science

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 19-35

  4. Levels and Patterns of Communication in the Global Network

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 37-60

  5. It’s Who You Know (or Could Know) That Counts

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 61-85

  6. The Global Network of Science Emerges

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 87-107

  7. Openness in the Global Network

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 109-120

  8. Nations Within the Global Network

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 121-140

  9. Local Innovation and the Global Network

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 141-162

  10. Governing Global Science

    • Caroline S. Wagner
    Pages 163-179

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-194
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About this book

In recent years a global network of science has emerged as a result of thousands of individual scientists seeking to collaborate with colleagues around the world, creating a network which rises above national systems. The globalization of science is part of the underlying shift in knowledge creation generally: the collaborative era in science. Over the past decade, the growth in the amount of knowledge and the speed at which it is available has created a fundamental shift—where data, information, and knowledge were once scarce resources, they are now abundantly available. Collaboration, openness, customer- or problem-focused research and development, altruism, and reciprocity are notable features of abundance, and they create challenges that economists have not yet studied. This book defines the collaborative era, describes how it came to be, reveals its internal dynamics, and demonstrates how real-world practitioners are changing to take advantage of it. Most importantly, the book lays out a guide for policymakers and entrepreneurs as they shift perspectives to take advantage of the collaborative era in order to create social and economic welfare.

Reviews

“This book explores what that global network is, and Wagner makes suggestions for ways to improve knowledge gathering and diffusion on a global scale. Readers gain valuable insights about how public policy manages the growing and maturing global scientific enterprise, and how clusters and convergence contribute to forming networks of scientific collaboration around the world. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals.” (J. Gelfand, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019) “Now more than ever, scientists and policymakers need this book’s illumination of how science has transformed into a globally networked enterprise based on collaboration, openness, and abundance. By examining science though complexity theory, network analysis, and science communication, this book is an indispensable travel guide for our emergent world system of science. Don’t try to navigate today’s and tomorrow’s science without it.” (Kei Koizumi, Senior Advisor for Science Policy, AAAS, USA)

“This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in the study, and practice, of contemporary science, its dynamics and policy. It continues a long research thread of viewing science as a network and provides a unique picture of the formative dynamics, structure, implications and challenges of its global collaborative era. Let us hope that this timely book, among other things, would alert policy to the advantages and challenges of making scientific knowledge truly and universally accessible.” (Maria Nedeva, Professor of Science and Innovation Dynamics and Policy, MIoIR, The University of Manchester, UK) 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Caroline S. Wagner

About the author

Caroline S. Wagner is the Ambassador Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Chair in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs and an advisor to the Battelle Center for Science and Technology Policy at the Ohio State University, USA. Previously, she served as deputy to the director of the Science & Technology Policy Institute at the RAND Corporation. She is the editor of the journal Science and Public Policy, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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