50 years of Innovation Policy Studies – What have we learned? And what are the emerging challenges?
Time: Mon 2019-05-13 15.00 - 17.00
Location: Big seminar room, Teknikringen 74D, level 5 - Div. of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Participating: Prof Ben Martin from SPRU at Sussex University
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Abstract
The field of science policy and innovation studies is now approximately 50 years old. It is therefore timely to look back and to analyse more systematically what has been achieved. Having identified a list of 20 advances over the field’s history, this lecture then sets out 15 challenges for coming decades. The intention is to prompt a debate within the innovation studies community on what are, or should be, the key challenges for us to take up, and more generallyon what sort of field we aspire to be.
Short Bio
Ben Martin is Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies at SPRU, where he served as Director from 1997 to 2004. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, both at the University of Cambridge. He has carried out research for 40 years in the field of science policy. Since 2004, he has been Editor of Research Policy, and he is also the 1997 winner of the de Solla Price Medal for Science Studies.