A general framework for analysing diversity in science, technology and society

By Andrew Stirling. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2007

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Conceptualizing Energy Security (2012, background): “Apart from that an implicit distinction can be seen in the fact that with the exception of approaches based on diversity (Stirling 2007) or the precautionary principle unexpected risks are not included in the analysis.”
Optimal Diversity: Increasing Returns versus Recombinant Innovation (2008, methodology): “For a dynamic approach that combines biodiversity with resource and ecological dynamics, see Swanson (1994). Finally, a formalization of polarization, a specific form of diversity, is proposed by Esteban and Ray (1994).”
Tracking the evolution of waste recycling research using overlay maps of science. (2011, background): “Since this is an inherently multidimensional description, in order to obtain scalar indicators one either has to consider each of the attributes separately or devise an indicator comprising the three aspects that makes a specific choice regarding the particular emphasis given to each attribute (vari”
Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach (2011, methodology): “For instance, measures using quadratic entropy were developed independently in functional ecology (Hendrickson & Ehrlich, 1971; Ganeshaiah, Chandrashekara & Kumar, 1997), genetics (Nei & Li, 1979), taxonomy (Warwick & Clarke, 1995) and most recently in economics (Stirling, 2007).”
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability (2012, methodology): “We are grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via the STEPS Centre and to the Stockholm Resilience Centre for funding this workshop and to Harriet Dudley, Julia Day, and Nathan Oxley at the STEPS Centre for their administrative and communications support.”
Interdisciplinarity revisited: evidence for research impact and dynamism (2019, background): “…conceptualised as the disciplinary diversity, necessarily requires the following three aspects: ‘variety’ (number of disciplines involved), ‘balance’ (distribution evenness across disciplines) and ‘dissimilarity’ (degree of dissimilarity between the disciplines) (see Rao, 1982; Stirling, 2007).”
Financing Renewable Energy: Who is Financing What and Why it Matters (2018, positive): “These differences in skew are robust to the method of measurement; we have confirmed the ranking of portfolio skew using the Stirling (2007) diversity index, which gives a smaller balancing weight to spreading a portfolio over similar technologies.14 Although this perspective does not reveal the…”
Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development (2015, background): “But only he argues in the words of Stirling (2007), if it is now ‘opened up’ and ‘broadened out,’ and that is exactly what he attempts to do in the final six chapters: ‘opening up’ by bringing politics, critique, and debate back in, and ‘broadening’ out by applying contextual, longitudinal…”
Learning the Curriculum with Bayesian Optimization for Task-Specific Word Representation Learning (2016, background): “2013), to economics and social studies (Stirling, 2007).”
How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management (2012, background): “Diversity in the science system is important from an ecological or evolutionary perspective because: (i) notions of quality are dynamic (what is now marginal may quickly become highly significant); (ii) diversity helps prevent paradigmatic lock-in; (iii) it fosters the appearance of new types of kno”
Shaping agricultural innovation systems responsive to food insecurity and climate change (2011, background): “Diversity refers to more than mere variety; it is underpinned by responsiveness to the heterogeneity existing within a particular context (Stirling 2007, 2008).”
Diversity and network coherence as indicators of interdisciplinarity: case studies in bionanoscience (2009, methodology): “…fields, from ecology to economics and cultural studies, to refer to three different attributes of a system comprising different categories (Stirling 1998, 2007; Purvis and Hector 2000): • variety: number of distinctive categories; • balance: evenness of the distribution of categories; •…”
Global maps of science based on the new Web-of-Science categories (2012, positive): “An additional routine enables the user to measure Rao-Stirling diversity as an index of the interdisciplinarity in the samples under study (cf. Carley and Porter 2012; Leydesdorff and Rafols 2011; Porter and Rafols 2009; Rafols et al. 2012; Stirling 2007).”