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[Loet Leydesdorff]

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Symposium X - Frontiers of Materials Research



The other symposium X talk of the meeting was given by Loet Leydesdorff,
(Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Netherlands) on The
Self-Organizing Dynamics of a Knowledge-Based Economy. During the course of
his talk, he posed three key questions and attempted to answer them. First,
what is the knowledge base of an economy? Leydesdorff described how a
knowledge base is constructed within social systems and the conditions under
which it is stabilized and also globalized. The self-organization was
specified and described as an interaction among three dynamics, the
so-called Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government. Second, how can
the knowledge base be measured? The production of negative entropy within
the system was used as an indicator. Using the Triple Helix model, the
mutual information in three dimensions was introduced as serving this
function. The maps of two na! tional economies, Germany and the Netherlands,
were shown using this indicator. Leydesdorff described how an advanced
knowledge-based economy was not confined to regions in the former West
Germany but also included specific areas in the former East Germany. Third,
can the knowledge base be modeled or simulated? Leydesdorff described
Anticipatory Systems, which are knowledge-based systems process models of
themselves. He discussed strong anticipation versus weak anticipation. He
described how psychological systems are only weakly anticipatory (that is,
they entertain models of themselves), while social systems can become
strongly anticipatory (under historically specifiable conditions). Strongly
anticipatory systems construct their own next stage.

© Materials Research  <http://www.mrs.org/> Society, 2005

 

 
  
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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 
 <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> loet at leydesdorff.net ;
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/> http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 


 <http://www.leydesdorff.net/knbecon> The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled,
Measured, and Simulated
 <http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956>
The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society;
<http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126816>
The Challenge of Scientometrics

 
 
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