Simon Schwartzman
Published in the Proceedings of the Global Seminar on the Role of Scientific and Engineering Societies in Development, New Delhi, AAS, INSA, ISCA, 1980, 394-400.IDEAL MODELS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY | |||
"republic of science" | "technical progress " | "big science" | |
goals | knowledge for its own sake | social and economic utility | organizational growth and strengthening |
criteria of evaluation | by the consensus of the scientific community | through market mechanisms | through acknowledgment within the organization |
rewards system | academic prestige and related benefits | according to the exchange value of technological products | organizational and bureaucratic power |
appropriation of the product of scientific work | by acknowledgment through diffusion within the scientific community | patents and other forms of proprietary research | by the organization |
type of science produced | "academic" science | "applied" science | "basic" science |