Re-Structuring Higher Education and Scientific Innovation (RHESI): The consequences of changes in authority relations for the direction and organisation of research

该项目的目的是找出公共科学系统和高等教育系统管理的变化如何改变科学创新的主要特征，特别是研究目标的选择以及成果的评估和整合。管理选择科学问题和评估结果的权威关系的变化是各种政策倡议和治理改革影响科学知识产生的中心渠道。上述趋势通过增加参与的权威机构的种类，如欧洲机构、国家科技部、研究资助委员会、慈善机构、工业企业和公共研究组织，以及它们指导研究战略和知识开发的能力和意愿，改变了这些权威关系。我们将通过比较分析不同国家的资金和治理改革如何改变科学领域的权威关系，来研究这些变化对不同学术体系中的知识创新和科学知识动态的影响。这项研究的中心目标是：1.找出欧洲不同的大学改革如何影响大学和其他公共研究机构的资源分配、绩效评估和就业实践的模式；2.分析这些变化如何影响国家、欧洲机构、大学管理者、科学精英、资助机构和私营公司在不同欧洲大学系统中对研究方向和组织的相对权威，3.确定这种权威关系变化影响的具体方式：a)不同科学领域的智力创新的发展，b)为智力和公共政策目的创造新的科学领域，c)大学和国家的知识分子精英整合研究目标和成果。

The aim of this project is to find out how the changing governance of public science Systems and higher education Systems are altering key features of scientific innovation, particularly the selection of research goals and the evaluation and integration of results. Changes in the authority relationships governing the selection of scientific problems and assessment of results are the central channels through which the various policy initiatives and governance reforms affect the production of scientific knowledge. The trends described above have changed these authority relations by increasing both the variety of authoritative agencies involved, such as European agencies, state ministries of science and technology, research funding councils, charities, industrial enterprises and public research organisations, and their capacity and willingness to steer research strategies and knowledge development. We will study the consequences of these changes for intellectual innovation and the dynamics of scientific knowledge in different academic Systems by means of a comparative analysis of how funding and governance reforms in different countries are changing authority relations in scientific fields.The central objectives of this CRP are:1. To find out how different university reforms in Europe are affecting patterns of resource allocation, performance evaluation and employment practices in universities and other public research organisations;2. To analize how changes in these are affecting the relative authority of the state, European agencies, university managers, scientific elites, funding agencies and private companies over the direction and Organisation of research in different European university Systems,3. To ascertain the particular ways in which such shifts in authority relations are influencing: a) the development of intellectual innovations in different sciences, b) the creation of new scientific fields for intellectual and public policy purposes and, c) the integration of research goals and results by intellectual elites across universities and countries.