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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Continuity or Discontinuity? Scientific Governance in the Pre-History of the 1977 Law of Higher Education and Research in Sweden
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Bragesjo, Fredrik; Elzinga, Aant; Kasperowski, Dick – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2012
The objective of this paper is to balance two major conceptual tendencies in science policy studies, continuity and discontinuity theory. While the latter argue for fundamental and distinct changes in science policy in the late 20th century, continuity theorists show how changes do occur but not as abrupt and fundamental as discontinuity theorists…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Scientific Research, Classification, Foreign Countries
The Rise and Demise of the International Council for Science Policy Studies (ICSPS) as a Cold War Bridging Organization
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Elzinga, Aant – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2012
When the journal "Minerva" was founded in 1962, science and higher educational issues were high on the agenda, lending impetus to the interdisciplinary field of "Science Studies" "qua" "Science Policy Studies." As government expenditures for promoting various branches of science increased dramatically on both sides of the East-West Cold War…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Periodicals, International Organizations, Measurement Techniques