Abstracts.

This section provides abstracts of several articles about science and research. The article by Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am explores the cultural context of the new transdisciplinary field of molecular biology in the three countries that did the most to establish it -- Great Britain, the U.S., and France. It inquires into three aspects of each of these national cultures that may help explain its prominence as a cradle of molecular biology: political culture, intellectual culture; and institutional culture. Rigas Arvanitis and Hebe Vessuri offers a microanalysis of collaboration between scientific researchers in different countries. This is particularly helpful as a means of understanding complex trends in scientific research, the position that a country occupies in a particular scientific field, and also the influence of cultural variables on scientific communication. Meanwhile, the paper written by James Mullin examines the changes in government policies relating to the funding of scientific research which have seen the reliance on the direct funding of individual researchers. Linsu Kim offers an analytical framework which examines how industrialization takes place through the development of technological capability in interactions with the evolution of market competition, government policy, corporate strategy, and social culture in the context of developing countries.