The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge

Knowledge-Based Innovations and Social Coordination.- The Communication Perspective as an Empirical Philosophy of Science.- Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification.- The Semantics of Shannon-type Information.- Relations, Positions, and Perspectives on Innovation.- Synergy in a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations.- Regions, Innovations, and the North-South Divide in Italy.- Horizons of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems.- The Generation of Redundancy against the Arrow of Time.- Codification and Anticipation in Techno-Cultural Evolutions.- Inter-Human Communications and the Possibility of Science.- Subject Index.- Author Index.- Bibliography.

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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