Stabilizing the boundary between US politics and science: The rôle of the office of technology transfer as a boundary organization

Social Sciences

• technology transfer 77%
• principal-agent-theory 50%
• organization 40%
• politics 37%
• politician 28%
• principal-agent framework 27%
• incentive 26%
• moral hazard 23%
• principal-agent 23%
• economic approach 21%
• health 15%
• productivity 14%
• innovation 10%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Technology Transfer 100%
• Politics 83%
• Organizations 57%
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.) 35%
• Motivation 27%
• Biomedical Technology 21%
• Negotiating 20%
• Economics 13%

Arts & Humanities

• Technology Transfer 63%
• Boundary Work 28%
• Health 12%
• Policymaker 12%
• Incentives 11%
• Hazard 10%
• Complementarity 8%
• Innovation 7%
• Productivity 5%
• Economics 4%