ISBN:
080397793X
,
0803977948
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 179 S.
Edition:
1. publ., repr.
Series Statement:
Sage publications
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Wissenspsychologie
Abstract:
In this work, a team of authors argues that we are now seeing fundamental changes in the ways in which scientific, social and cultural knowledge is produced. They show how this trend marks a distinct shift towards a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing of forming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies. Identifying a range of features associated with this new mode - reflexivity, transdiciplinarity, heterogeneity - the authors illustrate the connections between these features and the changing role of knowledge in social relations. While the main focus is on research and development in science and technology, the book outlines the changing dimensions of social scientific and humanities knowledge. The relations between the production of knowledge and its dissemination through education are also examined. Gliederung: INTRODUCTION (Some Attributes of Knowledge Production in Mode 2, The Coherence of Mode 2, Some Implications of Mode 2). - 1. EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION (On the Phenomenology of the New Mode of Knowledge Production. - The Dynamics of Mode 2 Knowledge Production). - 2. THE MARKETABILITY AND COMMERCIALISATION OF KNOWLEDGE (Scale and Scope in Knowledge Production. - Dynamic Competition and Knowledge Production. - The Commercialisation of Research. - The New Economics of Production. - Configurations of Knowledge. - New Dimensions of Quality Control. - Sclae, Scope and the New Mode of Knowledge Production). - 3. MASSIFICATION OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (Patterns of Massification in Higher Education. - Collegiality, Managerialism and the Fragmentation of Knowledge. - Transition to the Knowledge Industries. - The Changing Nature of Technology Transfer). - 4. THE CASE OF THE HUMANITIES (Mode 2 Knowledge in Science and the Humanities: Similarities and Differences, Contextualisation and Meaning in the Humanities). - 5. COMPETITIVENESS, COLLABORATION AND GLOBALISATION (Network Firms, R&D Alliances and Enterprise Webs. - The Information Technology Paradigm. - Some Paradoxial Consequences of Globalisation). - 6. RECONFIGURING INSTITUTIONS (The Strain of Multifunctionality. - Levels and Forms of Pluralisation. - The New Institutional Landscape of Knowledge Production). - 7. TOWARDS MANAGING SOCIALLY DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE (Three Phases of Science and Technology Policy. - Rethinking Basic Assumtions. - The Management of Distributed Knowledge Production. - Future Issues). (HoF/Text übernommen)
