Chances and Problems in the Political Guidance of Research Systems

Mayntz, Renate; Scharpf, Fritz W.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-93629-6_6

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Chances and Problems in the Political Guidance of Research Systems

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Mayntz, Renate
Wissenschaft, Technik und Innovationssysteme, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Scharpf, Fritz W.
Projektbereiche vor 1997, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Mayntz, R., & Scharpf, F. W. (1990). Chances and Problems in the Political Guidance of Research Systems. In H. Krupp (Ed.), Technikpolitik angesichts der Umweltkatastrophe (pp. 61-83). Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.

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Since World War II, the Promethean image of science has eroded: the belief in science and technology as harbingers of wealth and happiness had to be reluctantly discarded as a fateful illusion. Scientific research is today perceived both as the major source of human progress and as the cause of new dangers threatening the very survival of humankind - intentionally, as through science-based A-B-C weapon systems, or inadvertently, as through the impact of science-based technological and economic development on our global environment. This poses a new challenge for public policy: both the growing effectiveness of science-based technologies and the growing hazards connected with their production and utilization seen to call for active political intervention. No modem state today can do without a science and technology policy which is expected both to promote and to curb.