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Brian Rappert

Bio: Brian Rappert is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Ignorance. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 100 publications receiving 1720 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian Rappert include University of Nottingham & Anglia Ruskin University.


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28 Nov 2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce contested futures: from looking into the future to looking at the future, Nik Brown, Brian Rappert and Andrew Webster, from performativity to prehension, Mike Michael.
Abstract: Contents: Foreword, Barbara Adam. Time, Temporality and the Social Construction of the Future: Introducing contested futures: from looking into the future to looking at the future, Nik Brown, Brian Rappert and Andrew Webster Futures of the present: from performativity to prehension, Mike Michael. Language and the Social Rhetoric of Technical Futures: Forceful futures: from promise to requirement, Harro van Lente The narrative shaping of a product creation process, J. Jasper Deuten and Arie Rip Organizing/disorganizing the breakthrough motif: Dolly the cloned ewe meets Astrid the hybrid pig, Nik Brown Talking about the future: metaphors of the internet, Sally Wyatt. Passed Futures: Lessons from failed technology futures: potholes in the road to the future, Frank W. Geels and Wim A. Smit Science fiction's memory of the future, Hilary Rose. Future Science, Future Policy and the Management of Uncertainty Scripts for the future: using innovation studies to design foresight tools, Bastiaan de Laat Genetics and uncertainty, Annemiek Nelis Expectations and learning as principles for shaping the future, Luis Sanz-Menendez and Cecilia Cabello Contested health futures, Tom Ling Index.

408 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the management of intellectual property in university spin-offs (USOs) that emerge through both informal and formal linkages with universities across three sectors, and examined the exchange of knowledge in commercial and academic networks and the implications of changes in the sponsorship, ownership and proprietary status of knowledge for these patterns of exchange.

235 citations

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TL;DR: The research informing this article was supported by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust title ‘Beyond the Digital Divide’ (RPG-2013-153) as mentioned in this paper and was also funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ ERC grant agreement n° 335925.
Abstract: The research informing this article was supported by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust title ‘Beyond the Digital Divide’ (RPG-2013-153). Sabina Leonelli was also funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ ERC grant agreement n° 335925. Ann Kelly’s contribution was also supported by UK Economic Social Research Council Urgency Grants mechanism (ES/M009203/1).

81 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a basis for examining the link between politics and artefacts, one that draws on but reconfigures the work of post-essentialist authors, is proposed, by moving away from attempts to detail the social basis of technology to consider where the ambiguities associated with technology are resolved.
Abstract: Much debate has taken place in science and technology studies (S&TS) regarding how to speak about the capacities of technology. Alternative approaches are bound up with questions over the merits of realist and relativist accounts of technology and their potential for analytical insight and practical engagement. This paper advances a basis for examining the link between politics and artefacts, one that draws on but reconfigures the work of post-essentialist authors. This is done by moving away from attempts to detail the social basis of technology to consider instead where the ambiguities associated with technology are resolved. These issues are examined through the case of a (re-)emerging class of devices called `non-lethal' weapons and, in particular, the chemical incapacitant spray used by British police forces. In doing so, this paper reframes debates in technology studies over how far it is possible and desirable to pursue relativist lines of inquiry.

55 citations


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TL;DR: The authors examines recent developments in the role of the university in increasingly knowledge-based societies and concludes that the ''entrepreneurial university'' is a global phenomenon with an isomorphic developmental path, despite different starting points and modes of expression.

2,345 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-evolutionary model of socio-technical transitions is described in which regimes face selection pressures continuously and differentiated transition contexts determine the form and direction of regime change in response to these pressures.

1,898 citations