New Publication
Christina Brandt: Deutungskonkurrenzen: epistemische, politische und kulturelle Debatten zu den Life Sciences in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren. In: Kooperation und Konkurrenz in Wissenschaft und Forschungspolitik (ca. 1970-2000), hrsg. v. Kärin Nickelsen, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2025, pp. 245-284
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Is fierce competition the engine of scientific progress and technological innovation? This volume shows that scientific actors are always involved in co-operative structures. Using case studies from divided Europe and the USA since the 1970s, the contributions show how and why actors co-operated despite competition, how they competed within co-operations and how interests and assumptions from politics and economics influenced this tense interplay. Co-operative and competitive relationships are historically changeable and field-specific, they are often unstable but always interrelated, and they shape scientific activity and its results.
With contributions by
Christina Brandt | Kärin Nickelsen | Martin Schulze Wessel | Elke Seefried | Margit Szöllösi-Janze | Helmuth Trischler | Andreas Wirsching