Katharina C. Cramer, Olof Hallonsten (eds.) Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe. Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing 2020. ISBN: 978 1 83910 000 0

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This thought-provoking book expands on the notion that Big Science is not the only term to describe and investigate particularly large research projects, scientific collaborations and facilities. It investigates the significant overlap between Big Science and Research Infrastructures (RIs) in a European context since the early twenty-first century. Contributions to this innovative book not only augment the study of Big Science with new perspectives, but also launch the study of RIs as a promising new line of inquiry.

Contents:

1 Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe: History

and current trends 1

Katharina C. Cramer, Olof Hallonsten, Isabel K. Bolliger

and Alexandra Griffiths

2 Methods and strategies in the study of Big Science and

Research Infrastructures: A review 27

Nicolas Rüffin

3 The role of European Big Science in the (geo)political

challenges of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries 56

Katharina C. Cramer

4 Ever-changing Big Science and Research Infrastructures:

Evolving European Union policy 76

Inga Ulnicane

5 The introduction of ESFRI and the rise of national Research

Infrastructure roadmaps in Europe 101

Isabel K. Bolliger and Alexandra Griffiths

6 Intensified role of the European Union? European Research

Infrastructure Consortium as a legal framework for

contemporary multinational research collaboration 128

Maria Moskovko

7 Research Infrastructure funding as a tool for science

governance in the humanities: A country case study of the

Netherlands 157

Thomas Franssen

8 The role of research infrastructures in innovation systems:

The case of Swedish participation in the Halden Reactor Project 177

Olof Hallonsten, Hjalmar Eriksson and August Collsiöö

9 The access and return on investment dilemma in Big

Science Research Infrastructures: A case study in astronomy 198

Andrew Williams and Jean-Christophe Mauduit

10 Is there an “iron law” of Big Science? 217

Olof Hallonsten

11 Keeping a Research Infrastructure alive: Material, social,

and political work at the Institut Laue-Langevin 232

Beatrice D’Ippolito and Charles-Clemens Rüling

12 Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe:

Conclusions and outlook 251

Olof Hallonsten and Katharina C. Cramer