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In this chapter, I discuss the contribution (past, present and potentially in the future) of economic analysis and other social sciences to the management of science. I shall restrict myself to strategic management — the procedures, processes and criteria whereby resources are allocated to research activities, progress is monitored and results are disseminated and assessed — rather than to what goes on inside the laboratory. I shall also concentrate on science rather than technology, although we shall see that the nature of the contribution of the former to the latter is of central importance.
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Pavitt, K. (1991). What Do We Know about the Usefulness of Science? The Case for Diversity. In: Hague, D. (eds) The Management of Science. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21275-0_2
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