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The Public Nature of Science under Assault [electronic resource] :Politics, Markets, Science and the Law / by ,Helga Nowotny, Dominique Pestre, Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann, Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz, Hans-Heinrich Trute.

by Nowotny, ,Helga [author.]; Pestre, Dominique [author.]; Schmidt-Aßmann, Eberhard [author.]; Schulze-Fielitz, Helmuth [author.]; Trute, Hans-Heinrich [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.Description: VI, 148 p. online resource.ISBN: 9783540288862.Subject(s): Law | Science -- History | Economics | Social sciences | Law | General Law/Fundamentals | Social Sciences, general | Economics general | History of ScienceDDC classification: 340.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
The Changing Nature of Public Science -- The Technosciences between Markets, Social Worries and the Political: How to Imagine a Better Future? -- Comment from a Legal Perspective -- Responses of the Legal Order to the Loss of Trust in Science -- Democratizing Science: Expertise and Participation in Administrative Decision-Making -- Free Access to Research Findings and Its Limitations -- The Response of the Legal Order: Final Commentary from a Social Studies of Science Perspective.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Science has development from a self-evident public good to being highly valued in other contexts for different reasons: strengthening the economic competitiveness and, especially in high-tech fields, as a financial investment for future gains. This has been accompanied by a shift from public to private funding with intellectual property rights gaining importance. But in contemporary democracies citizens have also begun to voice their concerns about science and technology related risks, demanding greater participation in decision-making and in the setting of research priorities. The book examines the legal issues and responses vis-à-vis these transformations of the nature of public science. It discusses their normative content as well as the inherent limitations of the law in meeting these challenges.
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The Changing Nature of Public Science -- The Technosciences between Markets, Social Worries and the Political: How to Imagine a Better Future? -- Comment from a Legal Perspective -- Responses of the Legal Order to the Loss of Trust in Science -- Democratizing Science: Expertise and Participation in Administrative Decision-Making -- Free Access to Research Findings and Its Limitations -- The Response of the Legal Order: Final Commentary from a Social Studies of Science Perspective.

Science has development from a self-evident public good to being highly valued in other contexts for different reasons: strengthening the economic competitiveness and, especially in high-tech fields, as a financial investment for future gains. This has been accompanied by a shift from public to private funding with intellectual property rights gaining importance. But in contemporary democracies citizens have also begun to voice their concerns about science and technology related risks, demanding greater participation in decision-making and in the setting of research priorities. The book examines the legal issues and responses vis-à-vis these transformations of the nature of public science. It discusses their normative content as well as the inherent limitations of the law in meeting these challenges.

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