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Science and technology have long been considered key for development, problem solving and education in low-income countries, and Sweden has been at the forefront of efforts in this area, as one of the first countries to formalize research aid. This book analyses how the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries (Sarec) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) have worked to promote science in low-income countries. In doing so, the book tackles challenging questions around whose knowledges and capacities count, who sets the research agenda, how knowledge resources are distributed, and how complex donor–recipient relationships serve both to address and inflate these issues. Through a discursive analysis of policy material and interviews with former directors at Sarec and Sida as well as other key persons, the book traces how perceptions of the relationship between research and development have shifted over the last five decades. Pointing to why long-term collaboration is necessary in order to contribute significantly to capacity building, as well as highlighting more general tensions relating to the production of knowledge, Sweden’s Research Aid Policy: The Role of Science in Development will be a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers of foreign aid, development cooperation and the history of science and technology.
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Keywords
- Addis Ababa Action Agenda
- AID
- Canadian IDRC
- Development
- Discursive Practice
- High FDI
- High Income Country
- Inclusive Innovation
- lic
- Local Research Capacity
- Low Income Countries
- National Innovation Systems
- North South Research Partnerships
- policy
- Research Aid
- Research Capacity
- Research Cooperation
- Research Councils
- Science
- Social Science Research
- Sociotechnical Imaginary
- Sweden
- Swedish Aid
- Swedish Researchers
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutions
- UK Researcher
- UNESCO’s Influence
- Van Audenhove
- West Germany
- Wider Social Practice
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