THE POVERTY OF SCIENCE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY UNDER MRS THATCHER |
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| Authors: | DAVID EDGERTON KIRSTY HUGHES |
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| Institution: | David Edgerton is a lecturer in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine;Kirsty Hughes is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Manchester. |
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| Abstract: | The present government's policy for publicly funded science, which centres on selectivity and centralization, could damage Britain's capacity to innovate. The policy follows from a desire by government to control the scientific community and from the advice of some scientists and science policy experts. This paper details the contradictions in the government's thinking on industrial and scientific questions, and challenges the central, and usually unexamined, assumptions which are used to justify existing policy for science. |
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