Prof. Nedeva has endeavoured persistently to develop new perspectives and concepts that started at the margins of the field of science studies, but have now become prominent and well established; this effort has resulted in clearly demonstrable academic and stakeholder impact. Prof. Nedeva has created a strong and coherent body of work, which, while spanning several related areas, has a clear unifying feature: Prof. Nedeva develops new concepts to understand dynamics and interplay of scientific knowledge production and its governance. She works on research funders, research organisations, the interplay of research organisations and firms, and the overall science (and innovation) policy to support knowledge production and exploitation. In this work, Prof. Nedeva is developing perspectives that allow making sense of seminal trends which have altered the nature of knowledge production.

Prof. Nedeva was awarded a project grant funded by the ERC (EURECIA) and headed a team of internationally leading academics in four different research fields. EURECIA's output and dissemination have already changed the way funding agencies look at their impact, and researchers and research organisations understand how they are influenced by the ERC.