This comprehensive survey of modern plant breeding traces its history from the earliest
experiments at the dawn of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present …

Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development
of discourse analysis, a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of …

Change in policy and organisation is often presented as solely the outcome of a
combination of social and political processes. Furthermore, these processes are, somewhat …

The economic crisis of recent years provides an extremely valuable context for the study of
the effective role which R&D policies have had for governments, both as a potential tool for …

During the last two decades or so universities around the world have been subjected to
unprecedented exogenous pressures for change (Boden et al. 2004). These pressures are …

This article explores the development and maintenance of familiar gendered employment
patterns and practices in UK universities, which are exemplars of new modes of knowledge …

This article analyses the emergence of problem-oriented, so-called Mode 2 research as a
supplement to disciplinary-oriented Mode 1 research. Developments in research are …

Knowledge economy policies are currently very powerful drivers of change in contemporary
university approaches to research. They typically orientate universities to a national …

The goal of this study is to suggest a new approach, called metabolism of research
organizations, which analyzes how labs consume public funding to manage their structures …

According to proposals of the European Commission (EC) for Horizon 2020, the next
Framework Programme (FP) for Research and Innovation will direct resources to three …