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oapen-20.500.12657-273522021-11-10T08:07:03Z Scientific Competition Albert, Max Voigt, Stefan Schmidtchen, Dieter Economics Finance & accounting Labour economics economics of science Scientific competition science policies Is science a 'market of ideas'? Not according to the economics of science. Science is competitive, but scientific competition is not market competition. Nor is scientific competition the same as competition between universities. Scientific competition is, first of all, competition between individual scientists. Current science policies shift the boundary between scientific competition, where scientists provide public goods in the hope to acquire status among their peers, and market competition in science, where the results of research are private property protected by patents or other means, in favor of the market. However, the economic ring of the political slogans cannot conceal a serious lack of understanding of scientific competition behind the reform proposals. 2019-01-10 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-31 03:00:26 2020-04-01T11:50:06Z 2020-04-01T11:50:06Z 2008-01-01 book 1002656 OCN: 1083021198 783161560378 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27352 eng application/pdf n/a 1002656.pdf https://www.mohr.de/en/book/conferences-on-new-political-economy-9783161494130 Mohr Siebeck 101839 773c36f2-8bde-4e8c-8b8d-7fab7b2879fe b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 783161560378 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101839 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Is science a 'market of ideas'? Not according to the economics of science. Science is competitive, but scientific competition is not market competition. Nor is scientific competition the same as competition between universities. Scientific competition is, first of all, competition between individual scientists. Current science policies shift the boundary between scientific competition, where scientists provide public goods in the hope to acquire status among their peers, and market competition in science, where the results of research are private property protected by patents or other means, in favor of the market. However, the economic ring of the political slogans cannot conceal a serious lack of understanding of scientific competition behind the reform proposals.
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