The New Invisible College: Science for Development

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Caroline Wagner combines quantitative data and extensive interviews to map the emergence of global science networks and trace the dynamics driving their growth. She argues that the shift from big science to global networks creates unprecedented opportunities for developing countries to tap sciences potential. The New Invisible College offers both a guidebook and a playbook for policymakers confronting these tasks.

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"This short, thoughtful and easy-to-read book invites us to rethink our prejudices and to abandon practices more appropriate to the world as it was decades ago. All science policymakers should read it, especially those who believe that science is a public good and who want high-quality, big science research to be truly global." --Graham Farmelo, Times Higher Education Supplement "A very important scholarly work... a must read book for scholars in collaboration studies and those involved in science policy framework." --Sujit Bhattacharya, International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Newsletter

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Caroline S. Wagner is lead research scientist at the Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University, and senior policy analyst at SRI International. She previously worked at the RAND Corporation and as a staff member for the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she has served as a member of the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation and on the Advisory Board of Canada's Research on Knowledge Systems Program.