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Shaping strategic research: power, resources, and interests in Swedish research policy

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'Strategic research’ has become a goal of government policy throughout the industrial world. This paper follows the emergence of new approaches to the funding of 'strategic research’ in Sweden, by examining three research foundations created in the late 1990s, and considers their ambitions, limitations, and achievements.

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This paper is based on work funded by a consortium of the research foundations — including the SSF, the RJ, and MISTRA — for the 10th anniversary of the foundations in 2004. The authors thank their fellow contributors to the project, two anonymous referees, and Roy MacLeod, Editor of Minerva, for their helpful comments.

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  1. Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Scheelevägen 15, Alfa-1, 223 63, Lund, Sweden

    Mats Benner

  2. Office for History of Science and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sverker Sörlin

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Benner, M., Sörlin, S. Shaping strategic research: power, resources, and interests in Swedish research policy. Minerva 45, 31–48 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-006-9019-6

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