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The effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices: three cases from agricultural science

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  • Laurens K Hessels
  • John Grin
  • Ruud E H M Smits

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This paper investigates the varying effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices in three fields of Dutch animal science. Our analysis shows that the shifts in funding have stimulated interactions with societal stakeholders in fields where this has helped to sustain a basic research agenda. In other fields researchers experience a tension between satisfying the needs of application-oriented funding sources and reaching high scores on evaluations dominated by bibliometric indicators. The paper concludes with the identification of three field characteristics that seem to moderate the effects of institutional changes on academic research practices. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Laurens K Hessels & John Grin & Ruud E H M Smits, 2011. "The effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices: three cases from agricultural science," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 38(7), pages 555-568, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:38:y:2011:i:7:p:555-568
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    1. Marques, Marcelo, 2021. "How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(10).
    2. Jana Zscheischler & Sebastian Rogga & Maria Busse, 2017. "The Adoption and Implementation of Transdisciplinary Research in the Field of Land-Use Science—A Comparative Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-20, October.
    3. Guangchao Charles Feng, 2020. "Research Performance Evaluation in China: A Big Data Analysis," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(1), pages 21582440199, January.
    4. Laurens K. Hessels & Stefan P.L. De Jong & Stijn Brouwer, 2018. "Collaboration between Heterogeneous Practitioners in Sustainability Research: A Comparative Analysis of Three Transdisciplinary Programmes," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-16, December.

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