Tudományszervezési Tájékoztató, 1982

1. szám - Bibliográfia

JOINT UNDERTAKINGS OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE SOVIET UNION The article seeks to answer the question how the speeding-up of innovation process can be realized, i.e. how rapid application of research results can be carried out. In the CMEA countries, and in the capitalist ones £s well,new types of mechanisms and organizations which can guarantee the uniform organizational complex of science and production are set up. In the Soviet Union the joint undertakings of science and industry started to function in the late '60s. While combining the management of scientific and technological activities with that of productive and economic ones, now they contribute, considerably, to the scientific and technological development of some industrial sectors and guarantee the application of the newest scientific results. 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH In i98i, June 19-24 the 2nd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research was organized by Manchester Business School. The number of participants from the United States, Great Britain, France, Scotland, Italy, the FRG, Poland and Hungary were forty. The twenty-eight papers delivered centred around 3 thematic groups, i.e. the actual problems of interdisciplinary research; organizational structures; the management, performance and evaluation of interdisciplinary teams. The present article reviews four papers: the first one is concerned with the control of interdisciplinary academic research, the second with the forecast of research accomplishments, the third with the application of peer review system, the fourth with the analysis of interpretation and effects of interdisciplinarity

. THE FRENCH AND SCIENCE Since I972 the relations of science and the public have been investigated. In comparing the findings of the 1972 and 198о surveys the paper draws the following conclusions: although people's faith in the omnipotence of science has been slightly shaken, the myth of science is still strong; while the official ranking of priorities has not changed essentially, recently, the public has abandoned highly popular fields /environmental protection, public health etc./, and at the same time, demand for the support of military research has increased. All in all, the data indicate that the prestige of science has been diminishing. This means that not only people's faith in science has been shaken but the crisis of confidence will affect all social insitutions. JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE USA In the sixties the number of university enrollments and research budgets increased rapidly in Canada, France, the FRG, the United Kingdom and the USA. This tendency has reversed since the seventies. As a consequence, now there is a shortage of jobs for scientific manpower jeopardizing the vigour of basic sciences. In the USA and Canada the shrinking of the age group of 18 renders the present state more serious. From the countries concerned only the USA has taken no measures for the solution of the problem. As the present situation has been called forth by improper science policy,the measures to be taken should be overall, provided the society wants to rely on scientific accomplishments. 98