Too Big to Innovate? The Sense and Nonsense of Big Programmatic Research

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword by Jet Bussemaker, Minister of Education, Culture and Science 9
4. Introduction 11
5. The Art and Science of Asking Questions 19
6. A Plurality of Voices. The Dutch National Research Agenda in Dispute 31
7. National Research Agendas. An International Comparison 47
8. The Role of Universities of Applied Sciences in Implementing the Dutch National Research Agenda 61
9. Steering Scientific Research and Reaping its Benefits. Reflections on Dutch Science Policy 75
10. Managing what Cannot be Managed. On the Possibility of Science Policy 87
11. The Art of Making Connections 101
12. Too Big to Innovate? The Sense and Nonsense of Big Programmatic Research 121
13. The Art of Asking Questions, and why Scientists Are Better at it 137
14. Skip the Agenda Building. Let the Wisdom of the Crowd Drive a Dynamic Tapestry of Science 147
15. An Economic Perspective on the Dutch National Research Agenda 155
16. What is the Good of Government Interference in Science? A Question from Late Nineteenth-Century Germany 167
17. Free-range Poultry Holdings. Living the Academic Life in a Context of Normative Uncertainty 181
18. A National Research Agenda and the Self-understanding of Modern Universities 193
19. No University without Diversity. The Dynamic Ecosystem of Scientific and Social Innovation 209
20. Inspiration 221
21. Process of Developing the Dutch National Research Agenda 225
22. Index 239