Overview

What are the most significant challenges posed by new modes of organising knowledge production in the academy? How are academic-industry partnerships managed? What is the future role of the university in the knowledge society? The new knowledge society is characterised by a growing partnership between the university and industry. What are the implications for academics of such partnerships? What happens when the production of academic research is reorganised to reflect corporate structures and ambitions? what will future academic institutions be like? Does the nation state still have a role in determining how national science systems should be organised? This volume explores knowledge management in the university and beyond from the perspective of researchers working in academic-industry partnerships. Its re-examination of the role of the academy in knowledge production (and in society) is important reading for all academic researchers, for academic managers, and for students and scholars in science studies and the sociology of knowledge.

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Author:   JACOB ,  Tomas Hellstrom ,  Steve Fuller
Publisher:   Open University Press
Imprint:   Open University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 6.10cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 9.10cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780335206162

ISBN 10:   0335206166
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   16 August 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Part one: A new research context 'Mode 2' in context the contract researcher, the university and the knowledge society Fashions, lock-ins and the heterogeneity of knowledge production The evolution of the entrepreneurial university Part two: Mapping newly emerging issues in knowledge production Reciprocities and reputations in social science research From networking researchers to the networked university Emerging issues in R&D evaluation the case of university-industry partnership networks Part three: Making the future Hierarchical fragmentation putting labour back into the politics of academic knowledge One model for the institutionalization of university-industry partnerships the FENIX research programme Imagining the future university Index Bibliography.

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Merle Jacob (PhD) is leader of the research group that studies the relations and processes of knowledge creation in academic-industry research cooperation at the FENIX Research Program. She has published mainly in the area of policy studies and academic-industry relations. She is currently co-authoring a book with Tomas Hellstrom that will be entitled Knowledge, Policy and Risk and will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Tomas Hellstrom (PhD) is at the FENIX Research Program at Chalmers University of Technology, which is a cooperative research and education programme between the university and a number of large Swedish multinationals. He is currently leading the Research Group on 'Strategic Knowledge and Risk Management' (SKRAM!), which revolves around several projects on knowledge management and risk management conducted in cooperation with business and public organizations around Europe. He has published mainly in the area of policy studies, risk management and philosophy of science. He is currently working on his next book, Knowledge, Policy and Risk.

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