This WZB discussion paper is a collection of five papers dealing with current shifts in the boundaries between science and politics and their consequences on governance arrangements in science policy. In his article, Dietmar Braun analyses international developments in publicly funded research...

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...

Die Republik Korea hat seit ihrer Gründung 1948 einen rasanten wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung vollzogen. Gemessen am Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist sie weltweit die Nr. 13 und in Asien die viertgrößte Volkswirtschaft. Eine umsichtige staatliche Forschungs-, Technologie- und Innovationspolitik hatte...