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Open Science: the Very Idea
Science promised to society to contribute to the grand challenges of the United
Nations, WHO, the EU agenda and national agendas for change and improvement
of our life. It will be discussed how this social contract between science and society
has developed since 1945. The frst phase from 1945 till 1960 was characterized by
autonomy, building on the successes of the natural sciences and engineering in
World War II. In the second phase, the late 1960s till approximately 1980, government and the public lost trust and saw the downside of science and technology. The
response from politics and the public was a call for societal and political responsible
research inspired by broader socio-political developments in society. The third
phase from 1980 till 2010 was built on the idea that science and technology would
bring economic growth, which should make nations internationally competitive.
There was also increasingly room for societal problems related to environment and
sustainability, health and well-being. In this approach of the so-called knowledge
economy, strong relations with government and the private sector were established
characterized by short-term accountability, control from government and funders at
the level of project output, using accordingly defned metrics and indicators. This
model became frmly and globally institutionalized
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