From research policy to social intelligence : essays for Stevan Dedijer

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From research policy to social intelligence : essays for Stevan Dedijer

edited by Jan Annerstedt and Andrew Jamison

Macmillan Press, 1988

  • pbk.

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A collection of essays on the politics of science and technology which discuss the relations between scientific and technical development, the role of social movements in scientific and technical devleopment, the challenge of modern technology to democracy and the emergence of "social intelligence" as a new activity within the world of science and technology policy. The volume also contains a number of contributions to the quantitative study of science and technology. The volume's title reflects the interests of Steven Dedijer, the founder of the Research Policy Institute at the University of Lund in Sweden. He was one of the pioneers, in the early 1960s, in the development of science policy studies and he has, in recent years, been equally pioneering in his work on social intelligence, which he carried out both in Sweden as well as in several developing countries. The essays were written to honour Steven Dedijer on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

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  • Stevan Dedijer - an "elitist egalitarian", J.Annerstedt and A.Jamison
  • science, technology and modernization, A.Rhaman
  • the military use of technology - how benign is the scientific enterprise?, B.T.Feld
  • the redirection of science, H.Brooks
  • technology and democracy, J.J.Salomon
  • social movements and the politicisation of science, A.Jamison
  • Bernalism, Comintern and the science of science - critical science movements then and now, A.Elzinga
  • quantitative and qualitative factors in national policies for science and technology, C.Freeman
  • the global R & D system - where is the Third World?, J.Annerstedt
  • Japan's pursuit of knowledge - reversing the flow of information, J.Sigurdson
  • social intelligence - prerequisite for the management of science and technology, A.Ventura
  • Dedijer in Arabland, O.A.El-Kholy.

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