The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge aims to reach a unique understanding of science with the help of economic and … type of work on social studies of science that have, in recent decades, transformed our picture of science and technology …. Science - and more broadly research - is a field where economics and sociology meet in an attempt to understand how complex …

"This book serves as a multi-disciplinary platform and adopts a systems approach to the theory and practice of managing … information and people in knowledge intensive activities and processes, emphasizing the understanding of humans and their … environment as part of interacting systems from both soft and hard systems science"-- …

the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis …--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental … knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge …

Countries deploy a variety of financial, regulatory and soft policy instruments to promote science-industry knowledge … framework to map policy instruments for knowledge exchange and assess the interactions between them. The framework also …