This new ethnographic study looks of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at career structures and organizational issues that have hampered the advancement of scientists and scientific research in Japan. It provides analysis of the problem of career mobility in science, the status quo in university and government laboratories, relations between scientists and lay administrators and the problems encountered by women scientists. Japanese Science contests the view that Japan's relatively poor scientific record has been the product of cultural factors and instead demonstrates the crucial importance of moribund policy decisions in holiding back dynamic and ambitious scientists.
| ISBN: | 9780415510585 |
| Publication date: | 28th November 2011 |
| Author: | Samuel Coleman |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia |
| Genres: |
Science funding and policy Scientific research Economics Anthropology |
This new ethnographic study looks of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at career structures and organizational issues that have hampered the advancement of scientists and scientific research in Japan. It provides analysis of the problem of career mobility in science, the status quo in university and government laboratories, relations between scientists and lay administrators and the problems encountered by women scientists. Japanese Science contests the view that Japan's relatively poor scientific record has been the product of cultural factors and instead demonstrates the crucial importance of moribund policy decisions in holiding back dynamic and ambitious scientists.
Japanese Science features in the following genres: Science funding and policy, Scientific research, Economics, Anthropology
Japanese Science is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Japanese Science was written by Samuel Coleman and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Japanese Science has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia series
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