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

ISBN-13: 9783030599508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 247 str.

Loet Leydesdorff

Recenzje

"This is very interesting and promising research area which has great potential to enlarge our capabilities in understanding the dynamics of social systems and improve our forecast capabilities as to future yet to happing events. ... The book seems highly relevant, written in clear concise language and should arouse great interest among the readers." (Inga Ivanova, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Vol. 167, 2021)

Spis treści

Knowledge-Based Innovations and Social Coordination.- The Spring of “1968” in Prague, Paris, and Amsterdam.- Science & Technology Policies in the West.- Science Studies: The Sociological Perspective.- The Habermas-Luhmann Discussion,- “Wertfreiheit”.- Meaning and Information.- “Luhmann Reconsidered”.- Codification.- Hu[1]sserl’s “intersubjective intentionality”.- Autopoiesis.- Parsons’ Media Theory.- The Triple Helix Model.- Anticipatory systems.- The Measurement of Triple-Helix Synergy,- Concluding Remarks.- Part One: The Sociocybernetics of Scientific Knowledge.- The Communication Turn in Philosophy of Science.- Discursive Knowledge.- The modern citation as an example of codification.- The communication perspective.- Operationalization and Measurement.- Concluding Remarks.- Scientific Communication and Codification.- The Status of Cognitive Structures.- Codification in Communications.- Beliefs versus Rationalized Expectations.-  “Structuration” by Expectations.- Biological and Cybernetic Metaphors.- Sociocybernetics.- Concluding Remarks.- Towards a Calculus of Redundancy.- The Network Graph and the Vector SpaceDimensions and Dynamics of Information.- Levels B and C in the Shannon Diagram.- Scholarly Discourse and Codification.- Redundancy and Evolution.- The Generation of Mutual Redundancy.- Generalization.- Clockwise and Anti-Clockwise Rotations.- Summary and Conclusions.- Part Two: Synergy in Triple-Helix Relations.- Evolutionary and Institutional Triple Helix Models.- Historical Trajectories and Evolutionary Regimes.- From Dialectics to Triads.- The Knowledge-Based Economy.- Triads and Simmelian Ties in Triple-Helix Configurations.- The Generalized TH Model of Innovations.- Institutional and Evolutionary TH-Models.- The Measurement of Triple-Helix Configurations.- Synergy in Co-Authorship Relations in South Korea.- Synergy in Innovation Systems across Sweden.- Discussion.- Regions, Innovations, and the North-South Divide in Italy.- Innovation Policies and Innovation Systems in Italy.- Methods.- Data and Descriptive Statistics.- The Geographical Distribution of Firms in Italy.- Small, Medium-Sized, and Large Enterprises.- The Technological Dimension (NACE codes).- Results.- Regions.- Northern, Central, and Southern Italy.- Sectorial Decomposition.- Conclusions and Discussion.- Policy Implications.- The Measurement of Synergy.-  “Synergy”A Toy Model.- Vector coordinates.- Empirical Applications.- Synergy in international co-authorship relations.- Synergy in aggregated citation relations among journals.- Discussion and concluding remarks.- Part Three: The Dynamics of Expectations and Knowledge.- Anticipation and the Dynamics of Expectations.- Popper’s Perspective on the Growth of Knowledge   .- The Hyper-Incursive Order of Expectations  .- The Differentia Specifica of Inter-Human Communications.- The Theory and Computation of Anticipations.- Incursive and Hyper-Incursive Equations.- Solving the Equations  .- Simulations of Incursive and Hyper-incursive Equations.- Cellular Automata.- Modelling of Expectations using Cellular Automata.- Visualizations of Anticipations.- Sociological Implications and Concluding Remarks.- Subdynamics in Knowledge-Based Systems.- “Double Contingency” and Inter-Human Interactions.- Perturbed Recursions and Incursions.- Transversal and Longitudinal Propagation of Meanings.- Decisions and Decision Rules.- Inter-Human Coordination in the Second Contingency.- Interactions.- Organization versus Self-Organization.- Self-Organization.- Discussion and Conclusions.- Cultural and Biological Evolution.- Monism, Dualism, and “Big Data”.- Monism, Dualism, and “Big Data”.- Descartes’ Error versus Descartes’ Cogito.- TheMeta-Secularization of Alter.- Habermas’ Knowledge Interests.- Biology and Reification.- Consequences for Evolutionary Economics.- Summary and Conclusions.- The Sociocybernetics of Scientific Knowledge.- Synergy in Triple Helix Models.- Anticipatory Dynamics and Simulations.- Against Monism.- Bibliography- Author Index.- Subject Index

 

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O autorze

Loet Leydesdorff (Ph.D. Sociology, M.A. Philosophy, and M.Sc. Biochemistry) is Professor emeritus at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) of the University of Amsterdam. He is Associate Faculty at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex, Visiting Professor of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) in Beijing, Guest Professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and Visiting Fellow at the School of Management, Birkbeck, University of London. He has published extensively in systems theory, social network analysis, scientometrics, and the sociology of innovation (see at http://www.leydesdorff.net/list.htm or http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en). With Henry Etzkowitz, he initiated a series of workshops, conferences, and special issues about the Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations. He received the Derek de Solla Price Award for Scientometrics and Informetrics in 2003 and held “The City of Lausanne” Honor Chair at the School of Economics, Université de Lausanne, in 2005. In 2007, he was Vice-President of the 8th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (CASYS’07, Liège). Since 2014, the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI/Clarivate) lists him as a highly-cited author.

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Citations      57,637               15,405               18,894

h-index        105                     62                      68

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ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098

See for a LIST OF PUBLICATIONS at http://www.leydesdorff.net/list.htm

 

Born:                            August 21, 1948 in Djakarta (Dutch Indies) 

Current Address:         Paradijsplein 88, 1093 NJ,  Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Institutional Affiliation: Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASoR), University of Amsterdam 

Nationality:                  Dutch 

Marital status:             Married with two children

 

EDUCATION

1984  Ph.D. in the Faculty of Social Sciences (sociology) 

1977  M.A. Philosophy 

1973  M.Sc. Biochemistry (cum laude) 

1969  B.Sc. Chemistry (cum laude) 

1966  Gymnasium β

WORK EXPERIENCE

2013            Honorary Fellow, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam

2014            Guest Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou

2016-(2019)  Associate Faculty at SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research of the University of Sussex

2014-2019    Listed among the most-highly cited authors (during the previous ten years) by Clarivate/Thomson Researchers

2017            Academician of the Intern. Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences

2016            Honorary President of the Triple Helix Association

2015            Honorary President of the World Association for Triple Helix & Future Studies (WATEF), South Korea

2013            Emeritus, University of Amsterdam

2010-2018    Professor, “Communication and Innovation in the Dynamics of Science and Technology”, University of Amsterdam

2013-2016    Honorary Professor at SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research of the University of Sussex

2007-2013    Honorary Fellow of SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research of the University of Sussex

2013-2016    Visiting Professor at the School of Management, Birkbeck, University of London

2007            Visiting Professor at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) in Beijing

2007            Vice-President of the 8th Intern. Conf. on Computing Anticipatory Systems (Liège)

2006-2010    Honorary Research Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences

2005            ‘City of Lausanne’ Honor Chair, University of Lausanne

2003            Derek de Solla Price Award for Quantitative Science Studies

2000-2010    Associate Professor, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam

1980-2000    Senior lecturer at the Department of Science & Technology Dynamics of the University of Amsterdam 

1998-1999    Visiting Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Tokyo

1996            Distinguished AGT-Visitor, Communication Studies, University of Calgary, Canada 

1990            Maître de Recherche, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris (February/March) 

1976 -1980   Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam 

1978 -1981   Daily Board of the Amsterdam Science Shop 

1974 -1976   Assistant Professor for "Science and Society" at the Studium Generale of the University of Utrecht 

1972 -1973   Teaching assistant for "Science and Society" at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Amsterdam 

1969 -1972   Part-time professor for chemical technology at the Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS OF: 

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2016-;

Academic Editor, PeerJ Computer Science, 2015-;

Honorable Editor, Journal of Open Innovation, 2014-;

Associate Editor, Triple Helix, J. of University-Industry-Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2014-; 

Scientometrics, 1987- ; Price Medal Laureates Board; 

Social Science Information, 1994- ;

Industry and Higher Education, 1997- ;

Cybermetrics 1997- ;

Journal of Technology Transfer, 1999- ;

Science & Public Policy, 2004- ;

Journal of Informetrics, 2006-2019;

Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), 2020-;

International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2006- ;

RECIIS - Electronic J. in Communication, Information, and Innovation in Health, 2007- ;

The Open Communication Journal, 2007- 2015;

Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, 2008 -;

COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 2008- ;

Int. J. of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA), 2008- ;

Information, 2009- ; 

Intern. J. of Advance Computer Science and Information Technology (IJACSIT), 2013-;

Systema. Connecting matter, life, culture, and technology, 2013- ;

Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA), 2015- ;

Metalogicon, Int. J. of Pure and Applied Logic, Linguistics and Philosophy, 2015-;

Foresight. The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy / Форсайт, 2019-

Journal of University-Industry Collaboration, 2019- 

Contributing Editor to Science & Technology Studies, 1987-1988;

Contributing Editor to Science, Technology & Human Values, 1988-1990; 

Journal of the Int. Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (JISSI), 1995-1998; 

Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies, 1999-2001; 

Education, Science, and Innovation in the Knowledge Society (book series), 2013-2015;

Science, Technology and Society, 2001-2002;

Science Forum, 科学观察, 2005- 2015;

tripleC: e-journal for cognition • communication • co-operation, 2002-2014. 

Crisis Communication, 2012-2015;.

 

Blurb

 This open access book have three themes 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.