Collaborative Era in Science

Caroline S. Wagner is the Ambassador Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Chair in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs and an advisor to the Battelle Center for Science and Technology Policy at the Ohio State University, USA. Previously, she served as deputy to the director of the Science & Technology Policy Institute at the RAND Corporation. She is the editor of the journal Science and Public Policy, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

“This book explores what that global network is, and Wagner makes suggestions for ways to improve knowledge gathering and diffusion on a global scale. Readers gain valuable insights about how public policy manages the growing and maturing global scientific enterprise, and how clusters and convergence contribute to forming networks of scientific collaboration around the world. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals.” (J. Gelfand, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019)

• ​1. Science in the Age of Knowledge Abundance.- 2. The Scale and Scope of Global Science.- 3. Levels and Patterns of Communication in the Global Network.- 4. It’s Who You Know (or Could Know) That Counts.- 5. The Global Network of Science Emerges.- 6. Openness in the Global Network.- 7. Nations Within the Global Network.- 8. Local Innovation and the Global Network.- 9. Governing Global Science.