Archive | 2019
Research Policy and Knowledge-Intensive Organization
Abstract
This chapter examines (i) what factors determine transnational vs. state-centered zones of stem cell research policies (ii) how these factors affect organizations and translation pathways of basic research at the US and German academic KIOs. A methodology is an inductive-deductive analysis. Factors investigated are policy legacies, intellectual property regulations that reflect property theories of human body parts, and the competition style of moral stakeholders. The results show that (a) Given similar policy legacies between the USA and Germany, the ambiguity in defining thresholds of cells and organisms with a self-directing capacity invites politics. Competition styles of moral stakeholders affect zones of science. (b) Societal justification affects the cognitive processing and translational pathways of KIOs. (c) Global research alliances complement missing factors for each other.