What is it about?
How does the research system work? Understanding how science and technology, and research and development (R&D) create and disseminate knowledge is key to governing it effectively.
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Why is it important?
Scholarship and research communications create a complex network. This book argues that complexity theory provides a foundation to its fuller understanding to mechanisms of communications. This Chapter, "Its Who You Know..." applies network structures and principles to science communications. Networks are the actualization of complex systems, and we can use network analysis to begin a process of understanding the structure of the global network, exploring how networking changes the system. It also allows us to visualize and measure the global network at various levels.
Perspectives
Mechanisms that treat science and technology, research and development, and other scholarship as 'national assets' to be protected are misguided and, it could be argued, are doing damage to the system. Trying to keep certain people out, or trying to force people to move, are counterproductive. The point to governing effectively is to fully understand how the system operates. This chapter is part of a book, The Collaborative Era in Science, that makes this argument.
Dr. Caroline S. Wagner
Ohio State University
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This page is a summary of: It’s Who You Know (or Could Know) That Counts, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94986-4_4.
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