Scientific Competition / / Max Albert, Dieter Schmidtchen and Stefan Voigt.

• VerfasserIn: Albert, Max,; Voigt, Stefan,; Schmidtchen, Dieter,
• TeilnehmendeR: Voigt, Stefan,; Schmidtchen, Dieter,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen, Germany : : Mohr Siebeck,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 317 pages) :; illustrations

Is science a 'market of ideas'? Not according to the economics of science. Science is competitive, but scientific competition is not market competition. Nor is scientific competition the same as competition between universities. Scientific competition is, first of all, competition between individual scientists. Current science policies shift the boundary between scientific competition, where scientists provide public goods in the hope to acquire status among their peers, and market competition in science, where the results of research are private property protected by patents or other means, in favor of the market. However, the economic ring of the political slogans cannot conceal a serious lack of understanding of scientific competition behind the reform proposals.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Max Albert -- Job market effects on scientific productivity / Paula E : Stephan -- Comment / Bernd Fitzenberger -- Tertiary education in a federal system : the case of Germany / Günther G : Schulze -- Comment / Stefan Voigt -- The productivity of UK universities / Gustavo Crespi/Aldo Geuna -- Comment / Christian Pierdzioch -- Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists / Michael Rauber and Heinrich W : Ursprung -- Comment / Werner Güth -- Markets versus contests for the provision of information goods / Martin Kolmar -- Comment / Roland Kirstein -- The role of patents in scientific competition : a closer look at the phenomenon of royalty stacking / Christine Godt -- Comment / Christian Koboldt -- An economic theory of academic competition : dynamic incentives and endogenous cumulative advantages / Nicolas Carayol -- Comment / Dominique Demougin -- Research networks origins and consequences : first evidence from a study of astrophysics, nanotechnology and micro-economics in Germany / Dorothea Jansen -- Comment / Henrik Egbert -- A beauty contest of referee processes of economics journals / Christian Seidl, Ulrich Schmidt, and Peter Grösche -- Comment / Max Albert/Jürgen Meckl -- Methodology and the constitution of science : a game-theoretic approach / Jesús P : Zamora Bonilla -- Comment / Gebhard Kirchgässner -- Distributed cognition : a perspective from social choice theory / Christian List -- Comment / Siegfried Berninghaus.