Objective
During the last years there has been a sharp increase in the number of policies that promote inter-disciplinarity under the assumptions that:
(i) interdisciplinary research generates a higher rate of scientific breakthroughs and
(ii) it is more successful a t promoting innovation and at dealing with societal problems (Bruce et al., 2004). Such a move has been prompted by a number of studies highlighting the socio-economic benefits of a more cross-disciplinary new mode of knowledge production (Kodama, 1992; Gi bbons et al., 1994).
However, there are few empirical studies systematically analysing the different patterns of cross-disciplinary dynamics in emergent technologies and evaluating under which particular conditions the benefits of multi- or interdisciplina rity outstrip the very high learning and transactional costs incurred (Llerena and Meyer-Krahmer, 2004; Schummer, 2004).
This project aims to characterise the patterns of cross-disciplinarity in the development of some fields of bionanotechnology and evalu ate comparatively their scientific and innovative outcomes. I will apply bibliometric approaches successfully tested in nanotechnology (Meyer, 2001; Schummer, 2004), in parallel with qualitative case studies based on interviews, in order to obtain a detail ed micro-level picture of the key cognitive, instrumental and organisational elements that have contributed to research in diverse bionanotechnology fields. Case studies will be selected among different countries (including the main EU players, Japan, China and the US), so as to visualise the national differences in institutional rigidities and enabling conditions. In a final stage, I will analyse the policy and theoretical implications of the results.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies microtechnology lab on a chip
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- engineering and technology nanotechnology
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Keywords
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2004-MOBILITY-5
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Coordinator
FALMER, BRIGHTON
United Kingdom
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