Conference: “Basic and Applied Research”. Bonn, 20 Feb 2014
Date: 20-22 February 2014 Location: Bonner Universitätsforum, Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn, Germany The conference brings together researchers from the interdisciplinary field of science studies to discuss the origins, meanings and transformations of the distinction between “basic research” and “applied research” in the course of the 20th century. The aim is to compare how this key distinction of science and research policy has been handled by diverse ideological regimes of the 20th century, for example by the totalitarian regimes during World War II, by the liberal-democratic regimes of the West or by the socialist regimes of the East during the Cold War era, by decolonized states in the Commonwealth and by the recent innovation regimes of supranational entities such as the EU. In the last decades, several authors have noticed with surprise that ...