Anna Guagnini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1186865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Guagnini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Guagnini |
| SIGNATURE | GUAGNINI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Managing Bologna university museums and collections (1970-2015)
The literature on university museums abounds with accounts of new initiatives to reposition these institutions by opening them up to the general public as they move away from core of university activities like teaching and research. However, what is seldom analyzed is the long-term impact of such initiatives, and whether they survive the initial phases and live up to expectations. The study reports on the administrative history of the museums and…
Definitions, interactions and beyond
Responding to the commentators on the two special issues (in Management and Organizational History and in History and Technology) devoted to academic entrepreneurship in historical perspective, we renew our invitation to adopt a broad definition of the term entrepreneurship, and elaborate on our view that it can be a heuristically valid tool in the analysis of historical change in the academic, political, and social worlds. We agree, in particula…
Commercializing science
The collection of essays introduced in this article contributes to the debate on the commercialization of academic science by shifting the focus from institutional developments meant to foster university technology transfer to the actions of individual scientists. Instead of searching for the origins of the ‘entrepreneurial university,’ this special issue examines the personal involvement of academic physicists, engineers, photographic scientists…
Ivory towers? The commercial activity of British professors of engineering and physics, 1880–1914
The involvement of British academic scientists in commercial work has been often discussed by historians of science and technology. However a systematic study of this activity is still lacking. Focussing on the period 1880 to 1914, I examine the engagement in consulting, patenting and entrepreneurial initiatives of a segment of that community, namely engineering and physics professors. I discuss the institutional context in which it occurred and …
Academic entrepreneurship and institutional change in historical perspective
This article provides a historical perspective on academic entrepreneurship and its role in institutional change, and serves as an introduction to a special issue devoted to the subject. Unlike approaches that define academic entrepreneurship narrowly as the commercialization of academic research, we argue that historical research and reasoning justify a broader conceptualization focused on the pursuit of future forms of value in academic knowled…
The #FoodPeople Exhibition at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano
The #FoodPeople Exhibition at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano Anwesha Chakraborty (bio) and Anna Guagnini (bio) Established in 1953, the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” (hereafter Museo) is the largest science museum in Italy.1 One of its main attractions is the collection of models of Leonardo da Vinci’s machines, prepared in 1952–53 on the occasion of the five h…
John Fletcher Moulton and Guglielmo Marconi
Several Fellows of the Royal Society had a role in the achievements of Guglielmo Marconi. Among them was John Fletcher Moulton. An outstanding undergraduate mathematician at Cambridge who maintained a lifelong interest in electricity, Moulton went on to become one of the most formidable lawyers practising in the London courts. His collaboration in the preparation of Marconi's first UK patent in 1897 marked the beginning of an important associatio…
Education, Technology and Industrial Peformance in Europe, 1850-1939
Preface Introduction Part I. Setting the Pace: 1. Worlds apart: academic instruction and professional qualifications in the training of mechanical engineers in England, 1850-1914 Anne Guagnini 2. The training and career structures of engineers in France, 1880-1939 Andre Grelon 3. Technical education and industrial performance in Germany: a triumph of heterogeneity Wolfgang Koenig Part II. Coping with the Giants: 4. The training of engineers in Be…
Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939
Higher education and the engineering profession in Italy
Education for the Industrial World
The Flexible University
In recent years, cultural conservatism and the associated shortcomings of scientific and technical education have come to be widely regarded as important causes of Britain's industrial difficulties. But what hope is there that the educational reforms now being advocated by the British government will be any more effective than many similar ones that have been tried in Europe since the mid-nineteenth century? Historical evidence suggests that the …
Britain in perspective
In an influential book published in 1981, Martin Wiener identified cultural conservatism as a long‐standing impediment to the development of science, technology, and industry in England. This approach to the analysis of the country's flagging industrial performance is, in reality, less original than the excited response to Wiener's book would suggest: the purist, literary bias in English culture has been blamed for the low status of industrial an…
Academic entrepreneurship and institutional change in historical perspective
This article provides a historical perspective on academic entrepreneurship and its role in institutional change, and serves as an introduction to a special issue devoted to the subject. Unlike approaches that define academic entrepreneurship narrowly as the commercialization of academic research, we argue that historical research and reasoning justify a broader conceptualization focused on the pursuit of future forms of value in academic knowled…
Managing Bologna university museums and collections (1970-2015)
The literature on university museums abounds with accounts of new initiatives to reposition these institutions by opening them up to the general public as they move away from core of university activities like teaching and research. However, what is seldom analyzed is the long-term impact of such initiatives, and whether they survive the initial phases and live up to expectations. The study reports on the administrative history of the museums and…
Britain in perspective
In an influential book published in 1981, Martin Wiener identified cultural conservatism as a long‐standing impediment to the development of science, technology, and industry in England. This approach to the analysis of the country's flagging industrial performance is, in reality, less original than the excited response to Wiener's book would suggest: the purist, literary bias in English culture has been blamed for the low status of industrial an…
The Flexible University
In recent years, cultural conservatism and the associated shortcomings of scientific and technical education have come to be widely regarded as important causes of Britain's industrial difficulties. But what hope is there that the educational reforms now being advocated by the British government will be any more effective than many similar ones that have been tried in Europe since the mid-nineteenth century? Historical evidence suggests that the …
Higher education and the engineering profession in Italy
Education for the Industrial World
Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939
Education, Technology and Industrial Peformance in Europe, 1850-1939
Preface Introduction Part I. Setting the Pace: 1. Worlds apart: academic instruction and professional qualifications in the training of mechanical engineers in England, 1850-1914 Anne Guagnini 2. The training and career structures of engineers in France, 1880-1939 Andre Grelon 3. Technical education and industrial performance in Germany: a triumph of heterogeneity Wolfgang Koenig Part II. Coping with the Giants: 4. The training of engineers in Be…
John Fletcher Moulton and Guglielmo Marconi
Several Fellows of the Royal Society had a role in the achievements of Guglielmo Marconi. Among them was John Fletcher Moulton. An outstanding undergraduate mathematician at Cambridge who maintained a lifelong interest in electricity, Moulton went on to become one of the most formidable lawyers practising in the London courts. His collaboration in the preparation of Marconi's first UK patent in 1897 marked the beginning of an important associatio…
The #FoodPeople Exhibition at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano
The #FoodPeople Exhibition at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano Anwesha Chakraborty (bio) and Anna Guagnini (bio) Established in 1953, the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” (hereafter Museo) is the largest science museum in Italy.1 One of its main attractions is the collection of models of Leonardo da Vinci’s machines, prepared in 1952–53 on the occasion of the five h…
Commercializing science
The collection of essays introduced in this article contributes to the debate on the commercialization of academic science by shifting the focus from institutional developments meant to foster university technology transfer to the actions of individual scientists. Instead of searching for the origins of the ‘entrepreneurial university,’ this special issue examines the personal involvement of academic physicists, engineers, photographic scientists…
Ivory towers? The commercial activity of British professors of engineering and physics, 1880–1914
The involvement of British academic scientists in commercial work has been often discussed by historians of science and technology. However a systematic study of this activity is still lacking. Focussing on the period 1880 to 1914, I examine the engagement in consulting, patenting and entrepreneurial initiatives of a segment of that community, namely engineering and physics professors. I discuss the institutional context in which it occurred and …
Academic entrepreneurship and institutional change in historical perspective
This article provides a historical perspective on academic entrepreneurship and its role in institutional change, and serves as an introduction to a special issue devoted to the subject. Unlike approaches that define academic entrepreneurship narrowly as the commercialization of academic research, we argue that historical research and reasoning justify a broader conceptualization focused on the pursuit of future forms of value in academic knowled…
Definitions, interactions and beyond
Responding to the commentators on the two special issues (in Management and Organizational History and in History and Technology) devoted to academic entrepreneurship in historical perspective, we renew our invitation to adopt a broad definition of the term entrepreneurship, and elaborate on our view that it can be a heuristically valid tool in the analysis of historical change in the academic, political, and social worlds. We agree, in particula…
Managing Bologna university museums and collections (1970-2015)
The literature on university museums abounds with accounts of new initiatives to reposition these institutions by opening them up to the general public as they move away from core of university activities like teaching and research. However, what is seldom analyzed is the long-term impact of such initiatives, and whether they survive the initial phases and live up to expectations. The study reports on the administrative history of the museums and…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Commercialization (3 works) · Economics (3 works)