Capitalization
|Scientific Research as Asset Management
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Let us now move from the sanctum of management consulting to the temple of public science: the university research center. Why such a detour? What does this have to do with capitalization? We move again into the muddy waters of the metaphorical. There is certainly a loose sense (if not an ideal) of capitalization at work in scientific shoptalk when one hears (as we ourselves hear quite often) about the need to capitalize on research results, on publication plans or on recruitment opportunities. Accounting for the value (whatever this means) of scientific contributions and assessing the worthiness of scientific contributors could very well be thought of in terms of asset management: scientific publications with potential to generate future citations, research recruits with potential to generate future publications, and a sense of investment in publication power that requires the strategic administration of scientific capital. Is this a gratuitous play on words? How much of a detour i...
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