Research Catalog

Title

East European academies in transition / edited by Renate Mayntz, Uwe Schimank, and Peter Weingart.

Publication

Dordrecht : Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Mayntz, Renate
• Schimank, Uwe
• Weingart, Peter.

Description

xix, 163 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• The political and economic transformation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has also affected their research systems. Based on a preliminary series of country reports, in-depth case studies of selected academy institutes in all major CEE countries were conducted to trace the effect of these changes on scientific research. The present volume analyses the rich case study material in a comparative perspective, highlighting both general trends and significant differences between countries and disciplines.
• Major aspects are: financial threats and coping strategies, especially personnel reduction and the consequence of an aging research staff, changes in academy-institute relations and in the relationship to the university sector, shifting emphases between basic and applied research, and the new patterns of international cooperation in research.

Series Statement

Sociology of the sciences library ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Sociology of the sciences library ; v. 1.

Subject

• Research > Government policy > Europe, Central
• Science > Europe, Central > Societies, etc
• Research > Government policy > Europe, Eastern
• Science > Europe, Eastern > Societies, etc
• Science and state > Europe, Central
• Science and state > Europe, Eastern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Impact of Radical Regime Change on the East European Academies of Sciences / Renate Mayntz -- Financial Threats to Organizational Survival / Julita Jablecka -- Coping with Scarcity: Strategies of Personnel Reduction / Stanislav Provaznik, Petr Machleidt and Adolf Filacek -- Identity Problems: Basic or Applied Research? / Gyorgy Darvas -- What Determined an Institute's Fate in Transformation? / Uwe Schimank -- Antagonistic Cooperation in Academy-University Relations / Eduard Sarmir and Stefan Zajac -- Compromised Futures: The Consequences of an Aging Research Staff / Gennady A. Nesvetailov -- From East to West: New Patterns of International Relations of Research / Elena Mirskaya.

ISBN

0792351681 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98021721^

OCLC

39261851

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library