Sweden's Research Aid Policy

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.

Veronica Brodén Gyberg is an associate professor at the Department of Thematic Studies: Environmental Change at Linköping University, Sweden.

1. Science for development: the roots and branches of aid to research 2. Research aid: mutually beneficial cooperation or neo-colonial science? 3. Theoretical perspectives and methodology 4. 1973-1979: Tracing foundations 5. 1980-1990: Settling in and becoming pragmatic 6. 1991-1997: Polemic revival and the intertwining of localism and universalism 7. 1998-2008: Constructing sustainable knowledge societies 8. 2009-2020: Tackling global challenges through transformative innovation? 9. Concluding discussion: the boundary organization's conundrum