Description
The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century. 窶牢cience窶� and 窶亙nnovation窶� are increasingly tasked with driving and reshaping a troubled global economy while also tackling multiple, overlapping global challenges, such as climate change or food security, global pandemics or energy security. But responding to these demands is made more complicated because R&I themselves are changing. Today, new global patterns of R&I are transforming the very structures, institutions and processes of science and innovation, and with it their claims about desirable futures. Our understanding of R&I needs to change accordingly.
Responding to this new urgency and uncertainty, this handbook presents a pioneering selection of the growing body of literature that has emerged in recent years at the intersection of science and technology studies and political economy. The central task for this research has been to expose important but consequential misconceptions about the political economy of R&I and to build more insightful approaches. This volume therefore explores the complex interrelations between R&I (both in general and in specific fields) and political economies across a number of key dimensions from health to environment, and universities to the military.
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science offers a unique collection of texts across a range of issues in this burgeoning and important field from a global selection of top scholars. The handbook is essential reading for students interested in the political economy of science, technology and innovation. It also presents succinct and insightful summaries of the state of the art for more advanced scholars.
Table of Contents
Introduction: beyond crisis in the knowledge economy
David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls and Charles Thorpe
Part I From the 窶脇conomics of science窶� to the 窶湾olitical economy of research and innovation窶�
1. The political economy of science: prospects and retrospects
David Edgerton
2. The 窶徇arketplace of ideas窶� and the centrality of science to neoliberalism
Edward Nik-Khah
3. The political economy of the Manhattan project
Charles Thorpe
4. The knowledge economy, the crash and the depression
Ugo Pagano and Maria Alessandra Rossi
5. Science and engineering in digital capitalism
Dan Schiller and ShinJoung Yeo
6. US Pharma窶冱 business model: why it is broken, and how it can be fixed
William Lazonick, Matt Hopkins, Ken Jacobson, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç and Öner Tulum
7. Research & innovation (and) after neoliberalism: the case of Chinese smart e-mobility
David Tyfield
Part II Institutions of science and science funding
8. Controlled flows of pharmaceutical knowledge
Sergio Sismondo
9. Open access panacea: scarcity, abundance, and enclosure in the new economy of academic knowledge production
Chris Muellerlisle
10. The political economy of higher education and student debt
Eric Best and Daniel Rich
11. Changes in Chinese higher education in the era of globalization
Hongguan Xu and Tian Ye
12. Financing technoscience: finance, assetization and rentiership
Kean Birch
13. The ethical government of science and innovation
Luigi Pellizzoni
14. The political economy of military science
Chris Langley and Stuart Parkinson
Part III Fields of science
15. Genetically engineered food for a hungry world: a changing political economy
Rebecca Harrison, Abby Kinchy, and Laura Rabinow
16. Biodiversity offsetting
Rebecca Lave and Morgan Robertson
17. Distributed biotechnology
Alessandro Delfanti
18. Translational medicine: science, risk and an emergent political economy of biomedical innovation
Mark Robinson
19. Are climate models global public goods?
Leigh Johnson and Costanza Rampini
20. Renewable energy research and development: a political economy perspective
David J. Hess and Rachel G. McKane
21. Synthetic biology: a political economy of molecular futures
Jairus Rossi
Part IV Governing science and governing through science
22. Toward a political economy of neoliberal climate science
Larry Lohmann
23. Commercializing environmental data
Samuel Randalls
24. Science and standards
Elizabeth Ransom, Maki Hatanaka, Jason Konefal and Allison Loconto
25. Agnotology and the new politicization of science and scientization of politics
Manuel Fernández Pinto
26. Reconstructing or reproducing? Scientific authority and models of change in two traditions of citizen science
Gwen Ottinger
Part V (Political economic) geographies of science
27. The transformation of Chinese science
Richard P. Suttmeier
28. Postcolonial technoscience and development aid: insights from the political economy of locust control expertise
Claude Peloquin
29. World-system analysis 2.0: globalized science in centers and peripheries
Pierre Delvenne and Pablo Kreimer
30 From science as 窶彭evelopment assistance窶� to 窶徃lobal philanthropy窶�
Hebe Vessuri
31. Traveling imaginaries: the 窶徘ractice turn窶� in innovation policy and the global circulation of innovation models
Sebastian Pfotenhauer and Sheila Jasanoff
32. What is science critique? Lessig, Latour
Phil Mirowski
