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Mats Benner. Photo.

Mats Benner

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Mats Benner. Photo.

Shaping strategic research: Power, resources, and interests in Swedish research policy

Author

  • Mats Benner
  • Sverker Sorlin

Summary, in English

'Strategic research' has become a goal of government policy throughout the industrial world. This paper follows the emergence of new approaches to the funding of 'strategic research' in Sweden, by examining three research foundations created in the late 1990s, and considers their ambitions, limitations, and achievements.

Department/s

  • CIRCLE

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

31-48

Publication/Series

Minerva

Volume

45

Issue

1

Document type

Article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1573-1871