Functioning strategies of the research groups' leaders in the context of funding and policy instabilities
| Autor: | Astrid Jaime, Constanza Pérez‐Martelo, Bernardo Herrera, Gonzalo Ordóñez‐Matamoros, Dominique Vinck |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Science, Technology & Policy Studies |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Principal investigators Public Administration Higher education institutions Science Geography Planning and Development UT-Hybrid-D challenges and innovation policy Management Monitoring Policy and Law Science technology and innovation policy innovation governance Research groups' strategies technology performance management Bottom-up perspective universities |
| Zdroj: | Review of policy research. Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 1541-132X |
| Popis: | We explore the strategies implemented by Research Groups' Leaders while coping with unstable contexts, characterized by incoherence and lack of coordination among different policy discourses and instruments, and scarce resources. We focus on a country where these conditions are present: Colombia. In doing so, we study two cases, one in nanotechnology and another one in biomedical engineering. Interviews, focus groups and workshops allowed us to identify and validate strategies grouped in four popular sayings, proper to local idiosyncrasy, highlighting the role of home institutions and principal investigators in facing such situations with resilience and resourcefulness, and even taking advantage of them. We find that Research Groups' Leaders use strategies such as: adapting, balancing agendas and funding sources, networking, and taking advantage of the support programs available at their home institution to continue functioning. These are setting the ground for a further survey which could pretend some generalization. However, policymakers could consider these findings when defining policy instruments or for assessing their effectiveness or impacts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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