SPACE Researcher Stephan Pühringer talks about the precarious conditions in science in the podcast ‘mosaik’ ‘mosaik’ editor Raphael Deindl interviews SPACE researcher Stephan Pühringer on the precarious situation of science and possible reforms. In view of precarious working and employment conditions, tougher competitive conditions and the increasing focus on excellence indicators, the situation for knowledge […]
New Paper: Transition via Societal Spheres
“Transitional Processes via Societal Spheres: Polanyi and Schumpeter” by SPACE researchers Theresa Hager, Ines Heck (University Greenwich) and Johanna Rath In this paper, SPACE researchers Theresa Hager and Johanna Rath collaborate with Ines Heck (University Greenwich). The authors examine parallels and differences, intersections and complementarities in the notions of societal transition by Karl Polanyi and […]
New Working Paper: Competing for Sustainability
“Competing for sustainability?An institutionalist analysis of the new development model of the European Union” by Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Hager and Hornykewycz In this paper, SPACE researchers Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch and Theresa Hager collaborate with Anna Hornykewycz (ICAE, JKU Linz) to explore whether the EU’s new economic development model of ‘competitive sustainability’ could serve as a role model for […]
SPACE Podcast “Wettbewerb in Frage”: 10th Episode online
The 10th episode of SPACE Podcast entitled “Competition Universalism und einige Zusammenhänge zwischen Wettbewerb und Raum” is now online The SPACE Project (in cooperation with Lisa Puchner) is producing a podcast series entitled “Wettbewerb infrage” to support the dissemination of research results from the project and discuss the concept of competition more broadly. The podcast […]
SPACE in the media: Distorted Competition in Academia
SPACE Researcher Matthias Aistleitner talkes about the dominance of a few institutions in Economics The Austrian radio channel Ö1 published an interview with SPACE researcher Matthias Aistleitner in its science programm “Ö1 Wissen Aktuell”. Matthias talkes about the recent trend of the formation of ‘institutional oligopoly’, especially in the field of Economics. Together with his […]