2.4 Science, innovation and (sustainable) development

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 11
4. List of abbreviations 13
5. List of boxes, figures and tables 19
6. 1 Introduction
7. 1.1 Shedding light on German science policy for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies 21
8. 1.2 Sustainable development as normative background 25
9. 1.3 Contributions to scientific literature 27
10. 1.4 Analytical structure and outline of the chapters 29
11. 2 Science in the context of sustainable development
12. 2.1 Science for a cause? Between impact and autonomy 33
13. 2.2 Science policy and society 35
14. 2.3 Concepts of (sustainable) development 40
15. 2.4 Science, innovation and (sustainable) development 46
16. 3 Discourse analysis in a policy setting
17. 3.1 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse for policy analysis 61
18. 3.2 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in empirical research 64
19. 4 Research design and methodology
20. 4.1 Scientific model and approach 77
21. 4.2 Research design 78
22. 4.3 Data collection and sampling 79
23. 4.4 Fieldwork 82
24. 4.5 Data analysis 84
25. 4.6 Reflections on my position as a researcher 86
26. 5 Public funding for international research cooperation in Germany
27. 5.1 Research funders for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies 93
28. 5.2 The BMBF as funder of international research cooperation 100
29. 5.3 International funding initiatives in FONA 105
30. 6 Practices of policy production between structural frames, strategies and spaces of agency
31. 6.1 Structures and agency in the process of discourse actualisation in science policy 109
32. 6.2 Following a beaten track: Discourse reproduction 118
33. 6.3 Policy makers as change agents 123
34. 7 Friends and foes in science policy
35. 7.1 Defending the turf: Ministries as political entities 129
36. 7.2 Cooperation countries: From objects of policy to partners in policy making 139
37. 7.3 Discourse coalitions 143
38. 7.4 Power in discourse production 158
39. 7.5 A self-reinforcing equilibrium in science policy 161
40. 8 The heart of German science policy – and its green lungs
41. 8.1 The heart and soul of science policy 165
42. 8.2 The green lungs: Sustainability as a new discourse in science policy 172
43. 8.3 Translating the discursive leitmotif into discourses of international cooperation and sustainability 180
44. 8.4 Policy rationales as elements of political identity and symbols of difference 192
45. 8.5 Problematizing German interest 196
46. 9 Objectives and expectations of the IWRM and Megacities funding initiatives
47. 9.1 Deviating expectations in different funding initiatives of the Sustainability Subdepartment 199
48. 9.2 Policy expectations and mode of science 216
49. 9.3 High expectations, low conceptualisation 228
50. 10 Policy effects – coining realities
51. 10.1 Effects of policy on projects: Monitoring as a strategy for stabilizing discourse 233
52. 10.2 Projects between the influence of policy and rooms of adaptation 239
53. 10.3 Project practice: Subversion or compliance? 250
54. 11 Conclusions
55. 11.1 Discourse stability and discourse change 255
56. 11.2 The BMBF’s sustainability concept vs. global sustainable development 262
57. 11.3 Global development as opportunity for German science policy 267
58. 11.4 Further research questions 274
59. Appendices
60. Appendix A-1: Overview of data collected in interviews and from participant observation 277
61. Appendix A-2: Overview of interview partners 279
62. Appendix A-3: Example of guidelines used for a semistructured interview 286
63. Appendix A-4: Example of coverpage and first page of transcription of a semi-structured interview 288
64. Appendix A-5: Exemplary page of fieldnotes 291
65. Appendix A-6: Extract from list of codes 292
66. Appendix B-1: Developing countries and emerging economies with bilateral science, technology and innovation cooperation agreements with Germany 293
67. Appendix B-2: Overview of main BMBF funding measures for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies 294
68. Appendix B-3a: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the IWRM funding priority 297
69. Appendix B-3b: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the Megacities funding initiative 300
70. Bibliography 303