scholarly journals A Post-Marxist Reading of the Knowledge Economy: Open Knowledge Production, Cognitive Capitalism, and Knowledge Socialism

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (0) ◽  
pp. 7
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy

scholarly journals The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sergio Catignani ◽  
Victoria M. Basham
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Army Reserves ◽  
Multiple Challenges

Abstract This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional’ for political, military, economic, and social advancement. As feminist interpretive researchers examining an institution that prizes masculinist and functionalist methodologies, instrumentalised knowledge production, and highly formalised ethics approval processes, we faced multiple challenges to how we were able to conduct our research, who we were able to access, and what we were able to say. We show how military assumptions about what constitutes proper ‘research’, bolstered by knowledge economy logics, reinforces gendered power relationships that keep hidden the significant roles women (in our case, the partners/spouses of reservists) play in state security. Accordingly, we argue that the functionalist and masculinist logics interpretive researchers face in the age of the knowledge economy help more in sustaining orthodox modes of knowledge production about militaries and security, and in reinforcing gendered power relations, than they do in advancing knowledge.

Beyond constructivism: navigationism in the knowledge era

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

PurposeThis paper seeks to discuss past and present paradigm shifts in education and then to explore possible future learning paradigms in the light of the knowledge explosion in the knowledge era that is currently being entered.Design/methodology/approachNew learning paradigms and paradigm shifts are explored.FindingsLearning processes and learning paradigms are still very much founded in a content‐driven and knowledge production paradigm. The rapid developments in information and communication technologies already have and will continue to have a profound impact on information processing, knowledge production and learning paradigms. One needs to acknowledge the increasing role and impact of technology on education and training. One has already experienced enormous challenges in coping with the current overflow of available information. It is difficult to imagine what it will be like when the knowledge economy is in its prime.Practical implicationsInstitutions should move away from providing content per se to learners. It is necessary to focus on how to enable learners to find, identify, manipulate and evaluate information and knowledge, to integrate this knowledge in their world of work and life, to solve problems and to communicate this knowledge to others. Teachers and trainers should become coaches and mentors within the knowledge era – the source of how to navigate in the ocean of available information and knowledge – and learners should acquire navigating skills for a navigationist learning paradigm.Originality/valueThis paper stimulates out‐of‐the‐box thinking about current learning paradigms and educational and training practices. It provides a basis to identify the impact of the new knowledge economy on the way one deals with information and knowledge and how one deals with learning content and content production. It emphasizes that the focus should not be on the creation of knowledge per se, but on how to navigate in the ocean of available knowledge and information. It urges readers to anticipate the on future and to explore alternative and appropriate learning paradigms.

scholarly journals Knowledge Economy in Brazil: Analysis of Sectoral Concentration and Production by Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
José Antonio de França ◽  
Wilfredo Sosa Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Concentration Index ◽  
Concentration Level ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Location Quotient ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Postgraduate Level

The research presented in this article investigates and analyzes the concentration of knowledge production in Brazil, in the context of a public policy, at postgraduate level, by using the spectral methods grounded on the LQ (location quotient) and CI (concentration index) indicators, in three dimensions, from 2013 to 2018. The dimensions are economics, geography, and time. Economics is represented by Fields and Major Fields of knowledge production. Geography corresponds to the regions identified by each Federation unit (FU). Time is a chronological unit of the timeline in which knowledge is produced. The research then evaluates knowledge concentration in the income performance of the families by FU. The results are robust and indicate significant evidence that sectorial knowledge production in Brazil is regionally unequal and impacts on family incomes, but those family incomes evolve regardless of the knowledge concentration level produced. The research contributions are relevant to assist public policy regulators and monitoring managers, as well as to encourage future discoveries in regional economics applications.

Social Work Research in Chile: Tensions and Challenges under the ‘Knowledge Economy’ and Managerialist Research Agendas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianinna Muñoz-Arce ◽  
Gabriela Rubilar-Donoso
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Context Specific

Abstract Research has been a contested dimension of Chilean social work. An important turn occurred in 2008 when Chilean national research policies—highly influenced by managerialist approaches—increased opportunities for social workers to conduct research. Several efforts have been made by academics and professional social work organisations to encourage research as a means of gaining recognition as a discipline. Drawing upon a thematic literature review from a Chilean-based study on social workers’ research trajectories, this article contends that, despite the value of such efforts, there are some tensions related to the acritical adoption of such a managerialist approach on social work research that need further attention: (i) research does not have the same value for all social work sectors; (ii) social work research is mainly understood as ‘academic’ research; and (iii) social workers’ research does not necessarily have a ‘social work focus’. These findings are discussed in light of the historical background of Chilean social work and the insights provided by the international literature, from which we conclude that the creation of more inclusive and collaborative ways of conducting research is an urgent challenge. Findings are context-specific, yet, offer considerations for social work research seeking to counteract managerial approaches of knowledge production.

Institutional Transformations in the Regime of Knowledge Production: The University as a catalyst for the Science-Based Knowledge Economy

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dzisah
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Public Versus Private ◽  
The University

AbstractAlthough, the process of the capitalization of academic scientific knowledge is not benign across university campuses, recent acceleration of the process have sparked debates in many circles. This debate mirrors two sets of issues-public versus private interests. While the discourse has shed some light on the socio-economic and political forces at work, it is not devoid of problems. The paper argues that the understanding of the university as a catalyst for the science-based knowledge economy should be built around the framework that the university like industry and government is responding to a wide range of socio-economic and political demands that cannot be delinked from each other. It contends that, in a period of an ever-increasing demand for science and technology, universities' as citadels of knowledge have through the capitalization of academic scientific knowledge become a catalyst for the science-based knowledge economy.

scholarly journals The Skills of the Knowledge Economy Expected in the Future in the School Education in Oman: A scientific Study by Using the Delphi Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Jalilh Al Belooshi ◽  
Saif Al Ma'amari
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
The Future

The study aimed to build a list of the future knowledge economy skills that should be available in Omani education in accordance with the requirements of the knowledge economy. Using the Delphi method, the data was collected by sending a list of these skills to a sample of experts representing elite decision makers, experts and local academics in the economic, technological and educational fields, in three rounds. The results showed that the skills of the knowledge economy that Omani education should focus on are divided into five main skills: first: basic knowledge skills, second: communication skills third: knowledge production, fourth: digital skills, Fifth: Vocational and life skills, and finally: organizational skills, leadership skills and responsibility. The results indicated that basic knowledge skills were at the top of the five skills, followed by life and professional skills, digital skills, interpersonal skills and communication skills. The study recommended number of recommendations.

African Scholarship and its Integration within the Global Knowledge Economy : Reflections from within the University of KwaZulu-Natal

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Monica Njanjokuma Otu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Space ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
African Worldview ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
The University

Over the decades there have been continuous efforts to position African scholarship within the global knowledge economy. Against the backdrop of marginalisation and domination, the champions of African scholarship have been engaged with political, ideological, and philosophical agendas that attempt to legitimise the African knowledge enterprise. Using an anthropological lens, this paper presents the nuanced local/global dialectics related to the recognition of African scholarship. The paper is based on the reflections of a selected number of academics of African origin from the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It highlights their subjectivities towards the elusiveness of this concept and attempts to seek its relevance as a knowledge space within the global knowledge economy. Branded as the premier university of African scholarship, UKZN has embarked on vigorous curricular, pedagogical and research initiatives that seek to bring the meaningful transformation needed to position the institution as a truly African university. This meaningful transformation can only be achieved if knowledge production in on Africa is cognisant of an African worldview, encompassing African cosmological, ontological, and epistemological perspectives. Interviews with those who participated in this study revealed the need for African scholarship to go global. Although this was emphasised, the approach to it revealed three streams of scholars who are termed in this paper as the idealists, the moderates, and the extremists. Despite their varying subjectivities, the conclusion drawn from the interviews pays allegiance to Afrocentric paradigms as the only way African development can be achieved as it connects with other global knowledge systems.

Regional knowledge economies and global innovation networks – the case of Southeast Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Degelsegger-Márquez ◽  
Svend Otto Remøe ◽  
Rudie Trienes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Asean Member ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
Asean Economic Community

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the prospects of a Southeast Asian knowledge economy in light of regional integration processes and the participation of Southeast Asia in global innovation networks. Design/methodology/approach The evidence base is a combination of quantitative data on R&D investments, patent applications and publications, with qualitative data from 40 semi-structured expert interviews conducted with innovation experts, research managers and policymakers in six ASEAN Member States. Findings Despite economic growth and increases in R&D inputs and outputs in individual ASEAN Member States, innovation policy at regional ASEAN level remains weak. In addition, the economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community is progressing slowly. In this environment, evidence is presented for a certain level of regional integration when it comes to the exploitation of knowledge produced within and outside of ASEAN. While a regional market for knowledge exploitation is conceivable, this is not accompanied by the regional integration of knowledge production. Practical implications The main practical implication of this argument is the need for ASEAN policymakers to appreciate the disconnection between regional knowledge production and exploitation. This paper offers conceptual tools to engage in ASEAN-level policy discussions on this issue that can help facilitate the best possible regional outcome. Originality/value Despite several studies on the ASEAN Economic Community process, there has been no contribution so far that combines a discussion of the economic integration process with a look at the regional knowledge economy and innovation systems. This perspective does not only contribute to innovation systems literature, but also entails important policy lessons.

scholarly journals Modstand fra neden. Det Fri Universitet i København og muligheden for et kritisk (re)engagement i kunstinstitutionen

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (122) ◽  
pp. 221-242
Author(s):  
Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Radical Pedagogy ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Work And Life

The artist run anarcho-collective Copenhagen Free University that unfolded from 2001 to 2007 in the private apartment of Henriette Heise and Jakob Jakobsen was an attempt to create a free and autonomous university for alternative and marginalized forms of knowledge outside the profit oriented, neoliberal knowledge economy. The article starts out with a presentation of Copenhagen Free University’s project and its attempt to develop a strategy of self-institutionalization fusing collective knowledge production and radical pedagogy. Hereafter follows a discussion about the similarity between Copenhagen Free University and New Institutionalism, a strategy adopted by medium-sized art institutions in an attempt to put the art institution to a progressive end. As the article points out, Copenhagen Free University could be said to have ended in a paradoxical position where it mirrored a broader development taking place within contemporary capitalism where notions like autonomy, participation, creativity, temporality and openness played a significant role in the breaking down of the barriers between work and life. The article ends by asking whether the economic crisis could result in new experimental attempts to take over the art institution, putting it to anti-capitalist purposes.

scholarly journals Knowledge Economy in Brazil: Analysis of Sectoral Concentration and Production by Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
José Antonio de França ◽  
Wilfredo Sosa Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Concentration Index ◽  
Concentration Level ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Location Quotient ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Postgraduate Level

The research presented in this article investigates and analyzes the concentration of knowledge production in Brazil, in the context of a public policy, at postgraduate level, by using the spectral methods grounded on the LQ (location quotient) and CI (concentration index) indicators, in three dimensions, from 2013 to 2018. The dimensions are economics, geography, and time. Economics is represented by Fields and Major Fields of knowledge production. Geography corresponds to the regions identified by each Federation unit (FU). Time is a chronological unit of the timeline in which knowledge is produced. The research then evaluates knowledge concentration in the income performance of the families by FU. The results are robust and indicate significant evidence that sectorial knowledge production in Brazil is regionally unequal and impacts on family incomes, but those family incomes evolve regardless of the knowledge concentration level produced. The research contributions are relevant to assist public policy regulators and monitoring managers, as well as to encourage future discoveries in regional economics applications.

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