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* What are the most significant challenges posed by new modes of organizing knowledge production in the academy?
* How are academic-industry partnerships managed?
* What is the future role of the university in the knowledge society?
The new knowledge society is characterized by a growing partnership between the university and industry. What are the implications for academics of such partnerships? What happens when the production of academic research is reorganized to reflect corporate structures and ambitions? What will future academic institutions be like? Does the nation state still have a role in determining how national science systems should be organized?
This volume explores knowledge management in the university and beyond from the perspective of researchers working in academic-industry partnerships. Its re-examination of the role of the academy in knowledge production (and in society) is important reading for all academic researchers, for academic managers, and for students and scholars in science studies and the sociology of knowledge.
List of contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part one: A new research context
'Mode 2' in context
the contract researcher, the university and the knowledge society
Fashions, lock-ins and the heterogeneity of knowledge production
The evolution of the entrepreneurial university
Part two: Mapping newly emerging issues in knowledge production
Reciprocities and reputations in social science research
From networking researchers to the networked university
Emerging issues in R&D evaluation
the case of university-industry partnership networks
Part three: Making the future
Hierarchical fragmentation
putting labour back into the politics of academic knowledge
One model for the institutionalization of university-industry partnerships
the FENIX research programme
Imagining the future university
Index
Bibliography.
About the author
Merle Jacob (PhD) is leader of the research group that studies the relations and processes of knowledge creation in academic-industry research cooperation at the FENIX Research Program. She has published mainly in the area of policy studies and academic-industry relations. She is currently co-authoring a book with Tomas Hellstrom that will be entitled Knowledge, Policy and Risk and will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Tomas Hellstrom (PhD) is at the FENIX Research Program at Chalmers University of Technology, which is a cooperative research and education programme between the university and a number of large Swedish multinationals. He is currently leading the Research Group on 'Strategic Knowledge and Risk Management' (SKRAM!), which revolves around several projects on knowledge management and risk management conducted in cooperation with business and public organizations around Europe. He has published mainly in the area of policy studies, risk management and philosophy of science. He is currently working on his next book, Knowledge, Policy and Risk.
