What is science? How is it performed? Is science only a method or is it also an institution? These are questions at the core of Managing Science, a handbook on how scientific research is conducted and its results disseminated. Knowledge creation occurs through scientific research in...

Einleitung -- Management von Innovationen -- Management von Werkstoffinnovationen -- Empirische Untersuchung zum Erfolg staatlich geförderter Werkstoffinnovationsprojekte -- Schlussbetrachtung -- Literaturverzeichnis.

Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed, interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation with non-academic `practice partners' is at the core of this; creating contextualised, socially relevant knowledge about complex real-world...