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Exploiting Science and Technology (I)

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Science, Technology and Society

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The theme of the next two linked chapters is the exploitation of science and technology. In this chapter the primary focus will be on the ways in which different states have sought to exploit their national knowledge bases of behalf of the ‘national interest’. We shall also give some consideration to the way in which this is increasingly associated with pressures to commercialise public sector R&D, whether in the laboratory of the government research establishment or the academic institution. As we shall see, this commercialisation has also been accompanied by a restructuring of public sector research. Although state-funded research conducted in the public sector is very important — especially in the military field — corporate R&D is much greater in terms of funding and personnel. This industrial exploitation of science and technology is discussed in detail in the next chapter.

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Webster, A. (1991). Exploiting Science and Technology (I). In: Science, Technology and Society. Sociology for a Changing World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21875-2_4

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