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The transition from an industrial society to a knowledge and services-based society leads to a new way of thinking about the connections between the creation of knowledge and its application. The social innovation process sheds light on this social transformation and the way knowledge is being produ...

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Published in:The innovation journal 2010-01, Vol.15 (3)
Main Author: Harrisson, Denis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Industrial Societies
Innovations
Natural Sciences
Production
Social Change
Social Sciences
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Summary:The transition from an industrial society to a knowledge and services-based society leads to a new way of thinking about the connections between the creation of knowledge and its application. The social innovation process sheds light on this social transformation and the way knowledge is being produced and diffused. Since Michael Gibbons? cornerstone volume The New Production of Knowledge, The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies (1994) about Mode 2, that is, the co-production of research outcomes through interdisciplinarity and a problem focus, and later in 1998, Loet Leydesdorff and Henry Etzkowitz's seminal paper about the Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations, it is well acknowledged that the process of knowledge production in natural sciences as well as in social sciences and humanities is being developed in an effort to find and to bring about solutions to social, economic and cultural problems. Research and its application are introduced in a transdisciplinary and evolving framework that guides efforts towards solutions. This framework includes the collaboration of heterogeneous practitioners as well as academic researchers who together create knowledge that addresses the problem defined in a specific and local context and timeframe. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1715-3816
1715-3816