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Scientific innovation; Theory; DiffusionSujets proches
Gases--Diffusion Liquids--Diffusion broadcastingCiter ce document
Dietmar Braun, « Why do scientists migrate? A diffusion model », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.1007/s11024-012-9214-6
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The article is intended to improve our understanding of the reasons underlying the intellectual migration of scientists from well-known cognitive domains to nascent scientific fields. To that purpose we present, first, a number of findings from the sociology of science that give different insights about this phenomenon. We then attempt to bring some of these insights together under the conceptual roof of an actor-based approach linking expected utility and diffusion theory. Intellectual migration is regarded as the rational choice of scientists who decide under uncertainty and on the base of a number of decision-making variables, which define probabilities, costs, and benefits of the migration.