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Håkan Håkansson gästprofessor på Uppsala STS

Håkan Håkansson, professor i internationell marknadsföring vid Bedriftsinstitut, Oslo, kommer under 2012 att vara gästprofessor vid Uppsala STS. Håkan Håkansson kommer bland annat att arbeta tillsammans med Alexandra Waluszewski för att bygga upp ett nytt internationellt forskningsprogram, se nedan.

Nytt forskningsteam: sIMP

Det övergripande syftet bakom etableringen av det internationella forskningsteamet sIMP och forskningsprogrammet ‘Innovation Networks and National Interests’ är att undersöka vad förändringar i det ekonomiska och politiska landskapet betyder för specifika nationers försök att stimulera industriell förnyelse. Forskningsprogrammet koordineras av Alexandra Waluszewski i samarbete med Håkan Håkansson och Enrico Baraldi.

Nytt projekt beviljat

Per Lundin och Niklas Stenlås har beviljats medel från Vetenskapsrådet för projektet Reformteknokraterna, vars syfte är att studera nätverk och aktörer bakom den sociala ingenjörskonsten; välfärdsstatens strateger och byggherrar. Projektet kommer att starta 1 juli 2012, och vi hälsar därför Niklas och Per välkomna till Uppsala STS!

 

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Uppsala STS is a multi-disciplinary centre for research on the relationship between science, technology and society in general and between science, technology and business in particular.

Science has probably always subject to a variety of expectations. Today’s researchers, however, are not only subject to expectations regarding their ability to contribute to the development of their own fields or institutions, but regarding their capacity to produce knowledge that yields measurable, short term economic effects. This changing view of the role of science in society is a main focus of the research conducted at Uppsala STS.

The standard view of scientific progress in the 20th century was that it develops in accordance with an internal logic. Thus scientific research was perceived and treated as relatively autonomous. In the last three or four decades, however, science has increasingly been perceived and treated primarily as a resource to be manipulated and tapped for economic profit or social benefit by business and government. Resting on a large body of research in the social sciences and the humanities, Uppsala STS approaches the relation between science, technology and society from an interactive perspective, in which the problem-solving processes of scientific practice and its results are studied in terms of complex, contextually sensitive interactions and interventions between intellectual, social, cultural, economic, political and material elements.

As the scientific and social context changes and as research policy emerges as a central concern in national as well as trans-national politics, critical analyses of the relationship between science, technology and society are more salient than ever. The aim of Uppsala STS is to initiate and support such research, as well as contribute to educational programs in the field.

Uppsala STS has two main research programs:

1) "Science Technology, Business":
3) "Science, Technology, Society": Research and Policy.

Uppsala STS is also a platform for research in general in the area of Science and Technology Studies at Uppsala University.