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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554223603321

Autore

Narayanamurti Venkatesh <1939->

Titolo

The genesis of technoscientific revolutions : rethinking the nature and nurture of research / / Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Jeffrey Y. Tsao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-674-27028-2

0-674-27027-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

001.4068

Soggetti

Research - Management

Research - Methodology

Technology - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The technoscientific method - science, technology and their co-evolution: The repositories of technoscientific knowledge: S and T -- The growth of technoscientific knowledge: Ṡ and Ṫ -- Cycles of Ṡ and Ṫ: the transistor and the maser/laser -- Recapitulation -- The intricate dance of question-and-answer finding: Networks of questions and answers: Q and A -- Finding new questions and answers: Q̇ and Ȧ -- Cycles of Q̇ and Ȧ: special relativity and the iPhone -- Recapitulation -- The punctuated equilibria of knowledge evolution - surprise and consolidation: Paradigms as mediators of surprise and consolidation -- Surprise spawns consolidation spawns surprise -- Cycles of surprise and consolidation: artificial lighting -- Recapitulation -- Guiding principles for nurturing research: Align organization, funding, and governance for research -- Embrace a culture of holistic technoscientific exploration -- Nurture people with care and accountability -- Recapitulation.

Sommario/riassunto

"Scientific progress doesn't always precede engineering advances; it often follows. Answering questions isn't always the goal; finding questions often is. Sometimes we seek to strengthen conventional



wisdom; sometimes to surprise it. What if we could rethink nurturing research, through policy and management, to harmonize with the nature of research?"--