The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge : Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science

• Tác giả: Loet Leydesdorff
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3030599515
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 301.072 Sociology and anthropology
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (247 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 223129
• Chủ đề: 1. Communication studies; 2. Market research; 3. Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; 4. Social research & statistics; 5. Sociology

Tóm tắt

 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.