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We Scholars: How Libraries Could Help Us with Scholarly Publishing, if Only We'd Let Them

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-02) Holbrook, J. Britt

A look at some of the issues important to discussions of the library's role as a scholarly publisher.
United States National Science Foundation, Broader Impacts Merit Review Criterion

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Holbrook, J. Britt

In the early twenty-first century, science finds itself caught in a dilemma that is arguably of its own making: its very success in terms of understanding and controlling nature means that it has given birth to powers that transcend the traditional boundaries between science and society. Rather than being viewed as essentially neutral in terms of values, society increasingly views scientific knowledge as leading to various types of winners and losers. The review criteria for US National Science Foundation (NSF) proposals offer an instructive case study of this increasingly prominent dynamic.
Modernization, Chinese Perspectives

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Wenlong, Lu ; Holbrook, J. Britt

For some observers, China illustrates that Western modernism—in the philosophic sense—is no longer the only viable route to modernization. As one commentator notes, modern is translated in Chinese by xiandai (current generation)—a term that lacks the connotations of the English term modernization (Li 2011). If “modernization with Chinese characteristics” is not merely a process that entails accepting, adopting, or imitating Enlightenment rationalism, what is modernization from the Chinese perspective? One response to this question would need to emphasize that, unlike almost all other developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, China has never been colonized (like India) or occupied (like Japan). Despite being attacked by Western powers and forced to cede parts of its territory, China has always retained an independent heartland.
Games

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Briggle, Adam ; Holbrook, J. Britt

The long history of humans playing games to amuse or challenge themselves has been fundamentally transformed by science and technology. Science has studied in detail how games work, and technology has created whole new forms of computer and video games. Computer and video games exhibit two types of relationships to ethics: one concerns the ethics of the games themselves, another the possibility of using games to teach ethics.
Values in Science; Values in Engineering

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Biddle, Justin ; Holbrook, J. Britt

Values of many kinds play important roles in science. Ethical values constrain the types of experiments that scientists perform and the conditions under which they perform them. Moral and political values influence the choice of problems to address. Social values are operative in organizing social behavior in the scientific community. Values of some sort influence the methods of scientific knowledge production; the focus here is on the precise nature of the values that govern these methods.
Transformative Research

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Holbrook, J. Britt

Since the first years of the twenty-first century, an increasing number of governmental science funding agencies around the world have expressed interest in promoting transformative research (TR). Public funding agencies are thus experimenting with different ways to make TR happen. The concept of TR nevertheless remains somewhat elusive and subject to debate among scientists, policymakers, and the general public. The following three questions are prominent in this discussion: What precisely is TR? How is it best promoted? Does it actually deserve support? There is as yet no general agreement on answers to any of these questions.
Global Research Council

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Holbrook, J. Britt

At least since the formation of the Royal Society in 1660, science has envisioned itself as a global enterprise. Science is often touted as neutral territory concerned with the pursuit of truth independent of political or other biases. All scientists, on this view, share a common ethos, regardless of country, creed, race, or gender. With the increasing globalization of science, however, cultural differences between scientists from around the world have been recognized as an increasing problem (Suresh 2011).
Systems of innovation for development in the knowledge era: an introduction

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004) Lastres, Helena M. M. ; Cassiolato, José Eduardo ; Maciel, Maria Lucia

At the turn of the millennium, as radical transformations affect the ways we produce, reproduce and organize our very existence, the challenges to social and economic development seem, at times, overwhelming. What is the nature of these transformations? What are the interests and forces orienting them? What are the impacts of these transformations on the productive and innovative capacities of developing countries? How can they best face these challenges? What are the policy implications? The aim of this book is to address these questions. In what has come to be known as the ‘Knowledge Era’, the economy is relying on knowledge-based activities much more than ever before. There are at least three, interrelated, main arguments for this: (i) the proportion of labour that handles tangible goods has become smaller than the proportion engaged in the production, distribution and processing of knowledge; (ii) the share of codified knowledge and information in the value of many products and services is significantly increasing; (iii) knowledge-intensive activities are rapidly growing. Obviously, information and knowledge have always been important in human history. But today’s knowledge is more and more codified and the resulting information is more and more incorporated into goods and services. The development and diffusion of a new techno-economic paradigm, centred on information and communications technologies (ICT), have accelerated and deepened both the codification of knowledge and the spread of information. The extent, the velocity and the intensity of these changes have provoked, on one hand, an unbridled and uncritical enthusiasm with the multiple possibilities apparently available to all and, on the other, considerable perplexity as to how this transition actually affects social, economic and political processes and the best ways to deal with it. As we shall see, the nature of the transformations – and, therefore, of the challenges – is not always what it seems or is said to be. The first task, then, is to explore the reality behind the myths and to understand the real processes beyond the appearances and the rhetoric.
Innovation and catching-up

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004) Fagerberg, Jan ; Godinho, Manuel Mira
The Brazilian software industry

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004) Botelho, Antonio J. Junquiera ; Stefanuto, Giancarlo ; Veloso, Francisco