Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal

<p>Introduction&nbsp;Institutional Conditions for Progress and Renewal in Science.-.&nbsp;Chapter 1&nbsp;Fabricating an Organizational Field for Research: US Academic Microfabrication Facilities in the 1970s and 1980s&nbsp;Cyrus C.M. Mody, Maastricht University.- .Chapter 2&nbsp;From Salomon’s House to Synthesis Centers&nbsp;Edward J. Hackett, Arizona State University, Tempe and John N. Parker, Arizona State University, Tempe.- .Chapter 3&nbsp;The Seventh Solvay Conference: Nuclear Physics, Intellectual Migration, and Institutional Influence&nbsp;Roger H. Stuewer, University of Minnesota.- .Chapter 4&nbsp;“Preservation of the Laboratory is not a Mission.” Gradual Organizational Renewal in National Laboratories in Germany and the United States&nbsp;Olof Hallonsten, Lund University, Sweden and Thomas Heinze, University of Wuppertal, Germany.- .Chapter 5&nbsp;Institutional Context and Growth of New Research Fields. Comparison between State Universities in Germany and the United States&nbsp;Arlette Jappe, University of Wuppertal and Thomas Heinze, University of Wuppertal.- .Chapter 6&nbsp;Organizing space: Dutch space science between astronomy, industry and the government&nbsp;David Baneke, Utrecht University.- .Chapter 7&nbsp;“We will learn more about the Earth by leaving it than by remaining on it.” NASA and the Forming of an Earth Science Discipline in the 1960s&nbsp;Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.-.Chapter 8&nbsp;Interdisciplinary Research and Transformative Research as Facets of National Science Policy&nbsp;Irwin Feller, American Association for the Advancement of Science.</p>