Current changes in the science system, conceptualized as cyberscience, Mode 2 knowledge production or Triple Helix, have been debated heavily these last decades. This paper rearticulates these debates by studying the ways in which the emergence and use of ICTs have conditioned changes in the...

Even though critique to IPCC is certainly not new, the climate controversies of 2009 and 2010 brought this critique again to the fore in public media. The paper contributes to this ongoing debate, and investigates empirically the impact of the four Assessment Reports of the IPCC on scientific...

The recent increase in research collaboration, coupled with the increase in interdisciplinarity, creates the need to better understand the interaction between individual researchers and the collaborative team. Surprisingly, little theorizing has taken place to understand this interaction. The...

The aim of this paper is to make the case for a systematic engagement of transition studies with complexity theory and research. We argue that transition research is important for the understanding and development of possible sustainable future pathways. However, there are several controversies...

In this paper we explore the possibility of using Web links to study collaborations between organisations, combining the results of qualitative analysis of interviews and quantitative analysis of linking patterns. We use case studies of scientific intermediaries, that is, organisations that...

Renewable energy communities are grassroots initiatives that invest in "clean energy" in order to meet consumption needs and environmental goals and thereby – often unwittingly – conduce to the spread of renewables. Our aim in the present study is to explore the potential of renewable energy...

The recent increase in research collaboration creates the need to better understand the interaction between individual researchers and the collaborative team. The paper elaborates the conceptualization of research teams as complex systems which emerge out of the local interactions of individual...

In the paper, we assess the relationships between a whole range of policy agenda's in Belgium. Theoretically, we argue for a distinction between a fast track of agenda setting, that runs from media and protest via parliament to legislation and government decisions, and a slow track of agenda...

This paper studies the empirical relationship between the real economy, consumer confidence and economic news coverage in national newspapers for the Netherlands during the period 1990-2008. Media-attention for economic developments Granger-causes consumer confidence, with more negative news...