This paper explores institutional and organizational influences on creativity in scientific research. Using a method for identifying creative scientific research accomplishments in two fields of science (nanotechnology and human genetics) in Europe and the US, the paper summarizes results...

Research collaboration is a key mechanism for linking distributed knowledge and competencies into novel ideas and research venues. The need for effective inter-institutional knowledge flows is of particular importance in emerging domains of research, and also a challenge for public research...

Das vorliegende Werk vermittelt einen praxisnahen Einblick in den Kulturtourismus. Es werden aktuelle Entwicklungstrends und Perspektiven des traditionellen Kulturtourismus, sowie die zunehmende Bedeutung von Event-Kulturtourismus für städtische Destinationen lehrbuchmäßig mit Fallstudien...

Das Buch zeigt Grundlagen und Orientierungen für die (universitäre) Lehre und Forschung im Kulturmanagement auf und entwickelt Perspektiven für eine Professionalisierung der Akteure in den Feldern Bildung, Kultur und Wirtschaft. Entsprechend dem breiten Aufgabenspektrum zielt es auf die...

Studies of institutional transformation in science have largely overlooked Big Science installations, despite far-reaching changes to the roles and functions of such large labs in the past decades. Here, we present and analyze two Big Science labs that have undergone profound transformations...

This paper discusses the institutional persistence of systems of national laboratories (SNLs) that unlike other public and private research organizations appear to have experienced only minor institutional shifts in recent years. Although national laboratories started as time-limited...