The effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices: three cases from agricultural science

Laurens K Hessels, John Grin and Ruud E H M Smits

Science and Public Policy, 2011, vol. 38, issue 7, 555-568

Abstract: This paper investigates the varying effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices in three fields of Dutch animal science. Our analysis shows that the shifts in funding have stimulated interactions with societal stakeholders in fields where this has helped to sustain a basic research agenda. In other fields researchers experience a tension between satisfying the needs of application-oriented funding sources and reaching high scores on evaluations dominated by bibliometric indicators. The paper concludes with the identification of three field characteristics that seem to moderate the effects of institutional changes on academic research practices. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2011
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