Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies: Foundations and Frameworks (New Horizons in Public Policy series) - Hardcover

Rooney, David; Hearn, Greg; Mandeville, Thomas; Joseph, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840643404 ISBN 13: 9781840643404

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Knowledge is a product of human social systems and, therefore, the foundations of the knowledge-based economy are social and cultural. Communication is central to knowledge creation and diffusion, and Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies highlights specific social and cultural conditions that can enhance the communication, use and creation of knowledge in a society.

The purpose of this book is to illustrate how these social and cultural conditions are identified and analysed through new conceptual frameworks. Such frameworks are necessary to penetrate the surface features of knowledge-based economies - science and technology - and disclose what drives such economies.

The authors employ a trans-disciplinary approach to explore the nature of knowledge systems or environments and examine questions regarding the measurement of knowledge. Lessons are drawn from a variety of perspectives, including the history of information policy, philosophy, economic history, sociology, psychology, information economics, complex systems theory, organisational knowledge theory and political science.

This book will provide policymakers, analysts and academics with the fundamental tools needed for the development of policy in this little understood and emerging area.

About this title

About the Author

David Rooney, Associate Professor, Macquarie University, Australia, Greg Hearn, Professor, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, the late Thomas Mandeville, formerly Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia and Richard Joseph, Assistant State Manager (Program Solutions), WA Office, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Perth, Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840643404
• ISBN 13: 9781840643404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208