Format:
1 online resource (154 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780803977945
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9781446265871
Content:
In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge - scientific, social and cultural - is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies. Identifying features of the new mode of knowledge production - reflexivity, transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity - the authors show how these features connect with the changing role of knowledge in social relations. While the knowledge produced by research and development in science and technology is accorded central concern, the
Note:
Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Some Attributes of Knowledge Production in Mode 2 -- The Coherence of Mode 2 -- Some Implications of Mode 2 -- 1 Evolution of Knowledge Production -- Summary -- On the Phenomenology of the New Mode of Knowledge Production -- The Dynamics of Mode 2 Knowledge Production -- References -- 2 The Marketability and Commercialisation of Knowledge -- Summary -- 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 -- Scale, Scope and the New Mode of Knowledge Production -- References -- 3 Massification of Research and Education -- Summary -- Patterns of Massification in Higher Education -- Collegiality, Managerialism and the Fragmentation of Knowledge -- Transition to the Knowledge Industries -- The Changing Nature of Technology Transfer -- Reference -- 4 The Case of the Humanities -- Summary -- Mode 2 Knowledge in Science and the Humanities: Similarities and Differences -- Contextualisation and Meaning in the Humanities -- References -- 5 Competitiveness, Collaboration and Globalisation -- Summary -- Network Firms, R& -- D Alliances and Enterprise Webs -- The Information Technology Paradigm -- Some Paradoxical Consequences of Globalisation -- References -- 6 Reconfiguring Institutions -- Summary -- The Strain of Multifunctionality -- Levels and Forms of Pluralisation -- The New Institutional Landscape of Knowledge Production -- Reference -- 7 Towards Managing Socially Distributed Knowledge -- Summary -- Three Phases of Science and Technology Policy -- Rethinking Basic Assumptions -- The Management of Distributed Knowledge Production -- Future Issues -- References -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Gibbons, Michael The New Production of Knowledge London : SAGE Publications, Limited,c1994 ISBN 9780803977945
Language:
English
Keywords:
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