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Can Science Feed on a Crisis? Expectations, the Pine Institute, and the Decline of the French Resin Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2017

Marcin Krasnodębski
Marcin Krasnodębski*
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Université de Bordeaux E-mail: marcin.krasnodebski@u-bordeaux.fr
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While science and economy are undoubtedly interwoven, the nature of their relationship is often reduced to a positive correlation between economic and scientific prosperity. It seems that the modern scholarship focusing on “success stories” tends to neglect counterintuitive examples such as the impact of economic crises on research. We argue that economic difficulties, under certain circumstances, may also lead to the prosperous development of scientific institutions. This paper focuses on a particular organism, the Pine Institute in Bordeaux in France. Not only was it a key actor in the process of defining the discipline of resin chemistry, but also it remained for years at the heart of the local resin producing industry. Interestingly, there is an actual inverse correlation between the Institute's budgets and the prices and production of resinous products. The Pine Institute's existence seemed to have been driven by the crisis of the resin industry.

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Science in Context , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 61 - 87
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