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Changing funding regimes in research and innovation policy
with Professor
Dietmar Braun
Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales at the University
of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Introduction
Research and innovation policies in OECD-countries demonstrate both stability
and change since the Second World War. There have been several transformations
of existing policy rationales and concomitant changes in the choice of funding
instruments during this period. However, instead of replacing pre-existing
funding schemes there is an accumulation of rationales and instruments leading
to a "policy-mix". In the presentation the change of ideas on funding research
and innovation after the Second World War is discussed in a systematic manner
with regard both to the production and governance of knowledge. It is shown
that modern thoughts on organising knowledge creation and diffusion are increasingly
contested by post-modern thoughts directed to self-governance, empowerment,
contracts and (inter-systemic) networks as the main organising principles
in the funding of research and innovation policies. The result is a tension
between the "interventionist" and the "cooperative" state as well as between
the "science-push"-model and more interactive models of innovation in existing
funding regimes.
Keynote
Speaker
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Professor
Dietmar Braun
Currently an Honorary Fellow at the Department of Political Science at Melbourne
University, Dietmar Braun is on sabbatical leave from his post as Professor
of comparative political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales
at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He is editor of the Swiss Political
Science Review and member of the Research Council of the Swiss National
Science Foundation. He has been dealing with questions linked to research
and higher education in several research projects and been a consultant
for the German Ministry of Education and Research, above all in questions
of health research, as well as for the OECD. He is also member of the first
Network of Excellence of the European Union called PRIME (Policies of Research
and Innovation in a Move towards the European Research Area). Recent publications
in this area are (2003) "Policy Learning in Swiss Research Policy - The
case of the National Centres of Competence in Research", in: Research Policy,
32, 10, 1849-1863 and (2003) "Special Issue on Principal-Agent Theory and
Science Policy", in: Science and Public Policy, 30, 5.
Dietmar Braun has studied political science at the University of Amsterdam
(PhD) in the Netherlands before he worked as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute
for Societal Research in Germany and as an assistant professor at the Institute
for Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. In 1996, he became
full professor in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Respondent
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Professor Frank Larkins
Professor Francis Patrick Larkins was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Research) at the University of Melbourne in October 1990. He also
holds the position of Professor of Chemistry. His previous appointment,
from 1983 to 1990 was as Professor and Head of the Department of
Chemistry at the University of Tasmania. In 1989-90 he was also
Academic Director of Research at the University.
Professor Larkins is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (B.Sc
[Honours], MSc, DSc and B.Ed) and of Oxford University (Diploma Advanced
Mathematics, D.Phil). He is a Victorian Rhodes Scholar, Wadham
College Senior Scholar, Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and Fulbright
Senior Scholar.
Professor Larkins has published some 200 papers in the fields of theoretical
chemical physics, catalysis, coal chemistry, materials and fuel
science. He has a strong interest in education and science policy.
He has received several awards and prizes for his scientific work.
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Download Professor Larkins' presentation
(PDF 108 KB)
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Chairperson
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Dr
Jenny Lewis
Dr Jenny Lewis
is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, University
of Melbourne, Australia, with an adjunct position at the Centre for the Study
of Health and Society (Department of Public Health). She currently holds a
five year VicHealth / Department of Human
Services (state government) Research Fellowship and teaches into the Centre's
MPPM course. Jenny has published widely in academic journals, and has just
completed a book: Health policy and politics: networks, ideas and power
which will be released in early 2005.
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