Merle Jacob
Fellowship 2013
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Merle Jacob is Professor in Research Policy at Lund University and the UNESCO Chair in Research Management and Innovation Systems. She is currently Director of the Research Policy Institute at Lund University. Merle has previously been Director of the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo (09/2006-08/2010) and Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Professor Jacob’s research specialisation is the relationship between science and policy. Her two specific areas of empirical focus are the management of universities and national research systems. She has published extensively in both areas and is especially interested in the governance of higher education and research and the challenges posed to governance by globalisation and the integration of innovation into the mission of university.
Global governance and national science and innovation policy
This project proposes to investigate the problem of how global governance trends in science and innovation policy are diffused and domesticated in different national contexts. This is achieved by performing a qualitative interview based study of the European Science Foundation and its member organisations. The project fits with an emerging research interest in the study of the role of international organisations such as the OECD and UNESCO in science and innovation policy. It departs from this tradition in framing of the problematique global governance in science and innovation policy in terms of governmentality. In so doing, the project proposes to provide a theoretically informed and empirically anchored analysis of how rationalities and practices in the governance of science and innovation policy travel from one context to another.
