Martina Merz & Philippe Sormani 
The Local Configuration of New Research Fields [PDF ebook] 
On Regional and National Diversity

Chapter 1: Configuring New Research Fields: How Policy, Place, and Organization are Made to Matter; Martina Merz and Philippe Sormani.- PART I: POLICY: NATIONALIZING SCIENCE.- Chapter 2: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Generic Governance on the Emergence of Research Fields; Jochen Gläser, Grit Laudel and Eric Lettkemann.- Chapter 3: Building Multidisciplinary Research Fields: The Cases of Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Synthetic Biology; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent.- Chapter 4: Placing a New Science: Exploring Spatial and Temporal Configurations of Synthetic Biology; Morgan Meyer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson.- PART II: PLACE: MOBILIZING REGIONS.- Chapter 5: The Local Configuration of a Science and Innovation Policy: A City in the Nanoworld; Dominique Vinck.- Chapter 6: The Local Articulation of Contextual Resources: From Metallic Glasses to Nanoscale Research; Martina Merz and Peter Biniok.- Chapter 7: Nanodistricts: Between Global Nanotechnology Promises and Local Cluster Dynamics; Douglas Robinson, Arie Rip, and Aurélie Delemarle.- PART III: ORGANIZATION: MANAGING TENSIONS.- Chapter 8: Epistemic Politics at Work: National Policy, an Upstate New York Synchrotron, and the Rise of Protein Crystallography; Park Doing.- Chapter 9: Ecology Reconfigured: Organizational Innovation, Group Dynamics and Scientific Change; Edward J. Hackett and John N. Parker.- Chapter 10: Social/local Problems, Scientific/universal Problems and the Dynamics of Research Fields: A View from Latin America; Pablo Kreimer.- PART IV: MOBILITY: TRANSGRESSING CONTEXTS.- Chapter 11: Patterns of the International and the National, the Global and the Local in the History of Molecular Biology; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.- Chapter 12: Recasting the Local and the Global: The Three Lives of Protein Sequencing in Spanish Biomedical Research (1967-1995); Miguel García-Sancho.- Chapter 13: Practicing Innovation: Mobile Nano-training, Emerging Tensions, and Prospective Arrangements; Philippe Sormani.