Research organizations and major discoveries in twentieth-century science: a case study of excellence in biomedical research
Abstract: "This paper is a small part of a much larger historical and cross-national research agenda in which the author has been engaged for more than a decade. The agenda has confronted two major problems: (1) How does the institutional environment in which actors are embedded constrain their behavior and (2) how do the structure and culture of organizations facilitate or hamper their innovativeness. The paper addresses the problem of how the structure and culture of research organizations influence the creation of fundamental new knowledge. More specifically, the paper is part of a research project which is concerned with the question of why research organizations varied in their capacity to make major breakthroughs in biomedical science in the twentieth century. The perspectives that have been useful in shaping this project have come from diverse sources - the literatures on national systems of innovation, on organizational innovation, on evolutionary economics, on organizational capabil
- Alternative title
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Forschungsorganisationen und große Entdeckungen in der Wissenschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts: eine Fallstudie über Exzellenz in der biomedizinischen Forschung
- Location
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 99 S.
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
- Bibliographic citation
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Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ; Bd. 02-003
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
- (when)
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2002
- Creator
- Contributor
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-112976
- Rights
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- 15.08.2025, 7:32 AM CEST
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Associated
- Hollingsworth, J. Rogers
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Time of origin
- 2002
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