Science plays a fundamental role in society. Social studies of science have analyzed the nature of scientific research … main contribution to lay the foundations for the economics of science and research. The study here also endeavors to …

Interest in the role that science and scientific research play in economics and the other social sciences has exploded … as economics of science, sociology of science, managerial economics of research organizations, political economy of … science, etc.). The paper shows as the foundations of this discipline are the works of Huxley, Bernal, Bush, Peirce, Polanyi …

A new discipline analyses the role of science in society: the economics of scientific research. The purpose of this …

Four basic problems that a theory of science has to deal with concern epistemology, structure, causality, and dynamics … of science. These problems deal with the relationship of induction/deduction, actors/structures, internal …/external factors, and continuity/discontinuity. Traditionally they have been solved one-sidedly. Considering science as a self …

Critique is an important part of science and academia that is not always sufficiently recognised. This paper shows the …