Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies

It is timely to raise the question of the relationship between evolutionary economics and chaos theory particularly within the perspective of new developments in technology. This volume covers developments in non-linear dynamics as applied to the dynamics of economic-technological systems. Contributions from sociology are incorporated into a new paradigm thus generating new and more appropriate models.

Business & Money

Leydesdorff, Loet

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Scientometrics the quantitative study of scientific communication challenges science and technology studies by demonstrating that organized knowledge production and control is amenable to measurement First the various dimensions of the empirical study of the sciences are clarified in a methodological analysis of theoretical traditions including the sociology of scientific knowledge and neo conventionalism in the philosophy of science Second the author argues why the mathematical theory of communication enables us to address crucial problems in science and technology studies both on the qualitative side e g the significance of a reconstruction and on the quantitative side e g the prediction of indicators A comprehensive set of probabilistic entropy measures for studying complex developments in networks is elaborated In the third part of the study applications to S T policy questions e g the emergence of a European R D system to problems of Bayesian knowledge representations and to the study of the sciences in terms of self organizing paradigms of scientific communication are provided A discussion of directions for further research concludes the study

The Challenge of Scientometrics: The Development, Measurement, and Self-Organization of Scientific Communications

Science & Math

Research

Universal-Publishers

Networks of communication evolve in terms of reflexive exchanges The codification of these reflections in language that is at the social level can be considered as the operating system of society Under sociologically specifiable conditions the discursive reconstructions can be expected to make the systems under reflection increasingly knowledge intensive This sociological theory of communication is founded in a tradition that includes Giddens 1979 structuration theory Habermas 1981 theory of communicative action and Luhmann s 1984 proposal to consider social systems as self organizing The study also elaborates on Shannon s 1948 mathematical theory of communication for the formalization and operationalization of the non linear dynamics The development of scientific communications can be studied using citation analysis The exchange media at the interfaces of knowledge production provide us with the evolutionary model of a Triple Helix of university industry government relations The construction of the European Information Society can then be analyzed in terms of interacting networks of communication The issues of sustainable development and the expectation of social change are discussed in relation to the possibility of a general theory of communication REVIEW In this book LoetLeydesdorff sets out to answer the question Can society be considered as a self organizing autopoietic system In the process Leydesdorff develops a general sociological theory of communication as well as a special theory of scientific communication designed to analyze complex systems such as the Euroean Information Society from review in JASIST 53 1 2002 62 63

A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Explores the growing overlap of universities and industries in developing new technology for private gain, and how that blurring of boundaries impacts a university's traditional mission of teaching and research and the claim for public funding. The 14 studies, from a January 1996 workshop in Amsterdam, consider the construction of the knowledge-based regime, the operation of the triple helix, and universities in knowledge-based economies. Among the specific topics are the entrepreneurial university and the emergence of democratic corporatism, the emergence of research-technology communities across boundaries, and the desktop model of innovation in digital media. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy: A Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations (Science, Technology, and the International Political Economy Series)

Thomson Learning

<p>This open access book addresses three themes which have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. In this study, I discuss the relations among these themes. Using Luhmann's social-systems theory for modelling meaning processing and Shannon's theory for information processing, I show that synergy can add new options to an innovation system as redundancy. The capacity to develop new options is more important for innovation than past performance. Entertaining a model of possible future states makes a knowledge-based system increasingly anticipatory. The trade-off between the incursion of future states on the historical developments can be measured using the Triple-Helix synergy indicator. This is shown, for example, for the Italian national and regional systems of innovation.</p>

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge: Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science (Qualitative and ... of Scientific and Scholarly Communication)

Marketing & Sales

Springer