Stabilizing the boundary between US politics and science: the role of the Office of Technology Transfer as a boundary organization.

摘要: The sociological study of boundary-work and the political-ecomomic approach principal-agent theory can be complementary ways examining relationship between society science: provides empirical nuance to scheme, structure thick boundary description. This paper motivates this complementarity examine domestic technology transfer in USA from intramural laboratories US National Institutes Health (NIH). It casts policy for framework, which politicians attempt manage moral hazard productivity research by providing specific incentives agents engaging measurable research-based innovation. Such alter previously negotiated politics science. identifies crucial role NIH Office Technology Transfer (OTT) as a organization, medicates new negotiations its routine work, stabilizes performing successfully an agent both scientists. hypothesizes that organizations like OTT are general phenomena at