megascience

From mega- +‎ science.

megascience (plural megasciences)

1. An area of scientific inquiry which is so complex and/or expensive that international collaboration is required to investigate it.
   • 1995, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations, page 376:

     The international agenda includes: 1) using U.S. leadership in S&T to support foreign policy objectives including global stability and sustainable development; 2) strengthening American S&T in an increasingly interdependent world; 3) using international cooperation in S&T to our international economic goals; and 4) enhancing international cooperation in large-scale and complex science programs (megasciences).

   • 2009, David L. Hawksworth, “Mycology: a Neglected Megascience”, in Mahendra Rai, P. D. Bridge, editors, Applied Mycology, page 1:

     This contribution aims to demonstrate why mycology should be regarded as a megascience: a subject requiring international collaboration to overcome barriers that need to be confronted in the interests of global security and human well-being.

   • 2018, Caroline S. Wagner, The Collaborative Era in Science: Governing the Network, page 101:

     Endeavors that have traditionally been called “megascience projects” have led the way in international science, mainly because the cost of the undertaking was so large, no one nation could afford to do it alone.

   • 2019, Nurzhan Nurakhov, “The Basic Processes of Creating a "Megascience" Project”, in Tatiana Antipova, editor, Integrated Science in Digital Age: ICIS 2019, page 329:

     This paper is devoted to the study of the basic processes for the implementation of “megascience” projects and to ensure the possibility of their effective implementation using management information systems.

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