Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe

Edited by Katharina C. Cramer and Olof Hallonsten, Lund University, Sweden

'This book skillfully updates the literature on Big Science, containing newer perspectives on the history, sociology, and politics of research infrastructures. The interdisciplinary yet neatly integrated contributions show how ''big organizations, big machines, and big politics'' co-construct Europe and its research infrastructure.'--Cyrus Mody, Maastricht University, the Netherlands'This is an ambitious and effective coverage of the network of European Big Science institutions. It is a comprehensive and insightful volume that takes us behind purely scientific scenes to examine the policies that govern large European science projects, the legal frameworks that shape them, the funding that supports them, and the alliance-building that made them possible. The chapters are comprehensive, and reveal the political and commercial forces at work in the expanding network of European scientific institutions, as well as their crucial role in European integration and multinational cooperation.'--Robert P. Crease, Stony Brook University, US'This book, in a comprehensive and appealing way, tells a story of large scientific facilities dating back to the early Cold War and reaching the current era of integrated Research Infrastructure eco-systems. Going from a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to scientific cooperation among European states to tackle the grand challenges such as key health, environmental or quality of life problems, the book provides an evolutionary picture based on deep understanding and a solid analytical framework. The authors have done magnificent work on a topic that has been so far mostly scattered in diverse policy reports. A great analysis for anyone dipping their toe in Big Science or Research Infrastructures.'--Jan Hru ák, ESFRI Chair and The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

• Contents:1 Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe: Historyand current trends 1Katharina C. Cramer, Olof Hallonsten, Isabel K. Bolligerand Alexandra Griffiths2 Methods and strategies in the study of Big Science andResearch Infrastructures: A review 27Nicolas Rüffin3 The role of European Big Science in the (geo)politicalchallenges of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries 56Katharina C. Cramer4 Ever-changing Big Science and Research Infrastructures:Evolving European Union policy 76Inga Ulnicane5 The introduction of ESFRI and the rise of national ResearchInfrastructure roadmaps in Europe 101Isabel K. Bolliger and Alexandra Griffiths6 Intensified role of the European Union? European ResearchInfrastructure Consortium as a legal framework forcontemporary multinational research collaboration 128Maria Moskovko7 Research Infrastructure funding as a tool for sciencegovernance in the humanities: A country case study of theNetherlands 157Thomas Franssen8 The role of research infrastructures in innovation systems:The case of Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project 177Olof Hallonsten, Hjalmar Eriksson and August Collsiöö9 The access and return on investment dilemma in BigScience Research Infrastructures: A case study in astronomy 198Andrew Williams and Jean-Christophe Mauduit10 Is there an “iron law” of Big Science? 217Olof Hallonsten11 Keeping a Research Infrastructure alive: Material, social,and political work at the Institut Laue-Langevin 232Beatrice D’Ippolito and Charles-Clemens Rüling12 Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe:Conclusions and outlook 251Olof Hallonsten and Katharina C. CramerIndex 258