Thursday, 20 February 2014
2:00 – 2:45 pm Introduction:
The Role of Semantics in Science Policy and in Science Studies (David Kaldewey/University of Bonn and Désirée Schauz/University of Technology, Munich)
2:45 – 5:30 pm Longue-durée Perspectives on the Basic/Applied Distinction
Basic Research and Innovation: The ‘New’ Semantic Pair (Benoît Godin/Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Montreal)
Talking, and Not Talking, about ‘Applied Science’: Promoting a Culture of the Twentieth Century Public Sphere (Robert Bud/The Science Museum, London)
Coffee break
From ‘Natural’ Authority to Tactics and the Conduct of Conducts. The Politics of Knowledge Between the 1950s and the 2000s (Dominique Pestre/L’École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Academic and Industrial Research
Rewriting Applied Science: Purifying Histories of Knowledge-Making (Graeme Gooday/University of Leeds)
The Entrepreneur, the Laboratory, the Investor and the State: Changing Concepts of Innovation in the Twentieth Century (Lea Haller/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
7:30 pm Dinner
Friday, 21 February 2014
9:00 – 11:45 am German Research Policy in Fascist, Liberal and Communist Contexts
Science Policy in Search of New Semantics: Basic Research in the Era of the Second World War (Désirée Schauz/University of Technology, Munich)
‘Grundlagenforschung’ and ‘Anwendungsforschung’ in Science Policy Contexts in Western-Germany after World War II (Gregor Lax/University of Bielefeld)
Coffee break
Basic and Applied Research in GDR Science Policy (Manuel Schramm/Technical University of Chemnitz)
11:45 am – 3:30 pm Research policy in Communist Countries
From ‘Planning Science’ to ‘Goal-oriented Research’: Soviet Science Policy in Cross-ideological Encounters (Alexei Kojevnikov/University of British Columbia)
Lunch break
Theory versus (Policy Oriented) Empirical Research: Economics in State-Socialist Hungary after Stalin (György Péteri/Norwegian University of Science &Technology, Trondheim)
White Flags in a Red Tide: Debates Over Basic vs. Applied Research in the Politics of Science in Modern China (Zuoyue Wang/California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
3:30 – 5:30 pm Research Strategies in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
Why Was Fundamental Research Deemed Necessary for Colonial Development after 1940? (Sabine Clarke/University of York)
Coffee break
On the Necessity of a Disjunction: Science, Government and Industrialisation in Free India (Jahnavi Phalkey/King’s College London)
5:30 – 7:30 pm American Research Policy in National and Transnational Perspective
Basic Research as a Political Symbol (Roger Pielke/University of Colorado Boulder)
Regulating the Transnational Circulation of Knowledge: Dissolving the Basic/Applied Science Distinction (John Krige/Georgia Institute of Technology)
Saturday, 22 February 2014
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Old and New Semantics in the 21th Century
Basic and Applied Research: How Engineers and Industrial Scientists Use the Distinction (Rudolf Stichweh/University of Bonn)
The Emergence of the European Research Council: Hijacking Basic Research by Geopolitical and Market Semantics (Tim Flink/Social Science Research Center Berlin)
Coffee break
‘Tackling the Grand Challenges’: The New Rhetorics of Applied Research in EU Science Policy (David Kaldewey/University of Bonn)
Concluding Discussion