Friday, November 5, 2021

New Book "The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge: Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science" by Loet Leydesdorff,

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge: Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science
by Loet Leydesdorff; Springer Nature, 2021, ISBN 9783030599515; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59951-5

About this book: This open access book have three themes have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. In this study, I discuss the relations among these themes. Using Luhmann's social-systems theory for modelling meaning processing and Shannon's theory for information processing, I show that synergy can add new options to an innovation system as redundancy. The capacity to develop new options is more important for innovation than past performance. Entertaining a model of possible future states makes a knowledge-based system increasingly anticipatory. The trade-off between the incursion of future states on the historical developments can be measured using the Triple-Helix synergy indicator. This is shown, for example, for the Italian national and regional systems of innovation.

Table of Contents
  • Knowledge-Based Innovations and Social Coordination
  • The Sociocybernetics of Scientific Knowledge
  • The Communication Turn in Philosophy of Science
  • Scientific Communication and Codification
  • Towards a Calculus of Redundancy
  • Synergy in Triple-Helix Relations
  • Evolutionary and Institutional Triple Helix Models
  • Regions, Innovations, and the North-South Divide in Italy
  • The Measurement of Synergy
  • The Dynamics of Expectations and Knowledge
  • Anticipation and the Dynamics of Expectations
  • Subdynamics in Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Cultural and Biological Evolution
  • Summary and Conclusions

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