STS Research

Two broad research programs are being initiated at Uppsala STS. All are related to three central research issues:

A. How is natural and social sciences affected by an increasingly "economistic" view of science? I.e. by increased demands on contributions to economic growth, and by increased endeavours to measure the outcome.

B. How is research policy related to production of science and economic use of knowledge? I.e. what principles are contemporary policy resting on.

C. How is scientific knowledge used in society and in a business setting? I.e. how does the role of science appear when it is approached from a user perspective?


The two main programs are:

"Science, Technology, Business"

"Science, Technology, Society": Research and Policy

These issues are investigated by researchers representing the Departments of History of Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Economic History, Business Studies, Information Technology, Energy System and STS Masters of Engineering.

Uppsala STS also promotes research and educational initiatives in general in the area of Science and Technology Studies.

Uppsala STS has direct interaction (through visiting researchers, joint research, publishing projects etc) with following external units:

The Nobel Museum, Stockholm
National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm
Stockholm School of Economics
Linköping University
Lund University
Chalmers, Gothenburg
Umeå University
The Royal School of Technology, Stockholm
The Norwegian School of Management, BI, Oslo
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Denmark Business School, DBS
Oxford University, UK
University of Bath, UK
Lancaster University, UK
Stanford University
Harvard University
Tokyo University
Max Planck Institute, Berlin
University of Urbino, Italy
University of Bolzano, Italy
University of Lugano, Switzerland