This paper discusses the transnational regionalization in the Öresund area, where the ambition and will to regionalize has existed ever since the late fifties. However, from being futurism it has during the nineties turned into a huge project with many actors and resources organized around the...

Tre spørgsmål er til behandling og diskussion i dette oplæg. Hvad er viden-skabens specielle karakteristika her i begyndelsen af det nye årtusinde? hvordan skal koblingen mellem videnskab og samfund håndteres? Og en lidt kortere behandling af et mere specifikt spørgsmål: hvordan skal vi...

4 Background This paper summarises a grant proposal to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). The aim of this research project is to increase our understanding for factors that are crucial for creative working processes and innovative results in knowledge organisations. Its...

Quality control is an important and integrated part of the scientific system. However, developments in science are changing quality control into quality monitoring. New virtual and fluid organisational forms are emerging. Common boundaries are broken as for example in the “Triple Helix” and...

Since 1997 pay determination in the public sector in Denmark has entered a new and decisive phase. After 10 years of experiments with centrally fixed wage pools for decentralised renegotiations, 1997 saw a breakthrough in terms of a pay reform, which creates a serious possibility for using...

Hos Luhmann spiller skriften en vigtig rolle. Dels fordi han var ekstremt skrivende og havde sin lyst og last i ord, som kom let til ham og som endda havde farver, når han læste. Dels fordi skriften var et vigtigt led både i hans analyse af, hvordan sociale systemer stabiliserer sig, og i...

This paper argues the need for a new approach to the management of academic researchers and their research work. It is held that the requirement for a new management paradigm at the universities is accentuated by all the significant challenges in the knowledge production system (described as...

One of the major discussions of the 1990s has been about the relation between politics and administration. The themes of the discussions have been many and varied. It has been suggested that the level of politics should concentrate on the general political outlining and entrust the remaining to...

I dette arbejdspapir viser jeg, hvordan etableringen af det fælles marked har ændret sig grundlæggende siden Fællesskabets oprettelse i 1958 frem til 1990erne. Min analyse af markedsdannelsen viser, at samtidigt med at forståelsen af marked ændres, ændres også forståelsen af politik,...

Dear professor Apel! After having reread my notes from the lecture today, and compared them with the program, I think the following might constitute a question for the fourth lecture. But it is too long and fundamental to ask after the lecture. Nevertheless I hope you will consider it, when you...