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Frode Frederiksen, Finn Hansson, Søren Wenneberg
Copenhagen Business School, Dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen
Denmark
e-mail: fh.lpf@cbs.dk
The Valuation of Knowledge under changed Conditions of Production and Organization of Knowledge
In modern society characterized as the knowledge society or the information society, a number of important changes in the structure and the organization of scientific knowledge is taking place.
The paper will discuss the effect and consequences of these changes on the traditional quality control in scientific knowledge based on institutions of the closed scientific society, e.g. the peer review institution.
Concepts like mode 1 and mode 2 research (Gibbons) or Triple Helix (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff) try to encompass some of these changes where industry and government in a much larger and more organized degree than ever before are moving into the area of production of scientific knowledge. The result is new types of organization of research outside its traditional areas, growths in the network based organization and production of knowledge, changes in the relations between disciplines and disciplinary rationality of quality toward focus on social usefulness and a interdisciplinary organization of knowledge and a growing importance of the contextualization of knowledge. Altogether these changes makes it urgent to discuss how quality in the scientific knowledge production is constructed; through the market processes (commodified knowledge), through managerial processes and new types of research evaluation or through survival of parts of the old peer review system?
Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork - last update: April 2006