Self-Different Fractals and Innovation
Language: English
Published by CRC Press, 2025
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David F.J. Campbell is a Higher Education Researcher at the University forContinuing Education Krems in Austria Associate Professor for ComparativePolitical Science at the University of Vienna and a Quality Enhancement Expert.
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- Title
- Self-Different Fractals and Innovation
- Author
- David F. J. Campbell (University of Vienna, Institute of Political Science, Vienna, Austria)|Elias G. Carayannis (George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA)
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1041281919
- ISBN 13
- 9781041281917
The presented ideas create and shape the vision of a “Manifesto of Higher Education Governance”.
Fractals are typically understood as self-similar structures, but this concept is expanded to include “self-different fractals”. These fractals align with a “Philosophy of Dialectics”, where opposing forces (thesis and antithesis) can either create disruption or, when managed effectively, drive creativity, innovation, and development. Because self-different fractal systems operate in multiple modes, they hold greater potential for fostering innovation.
This conceptual exploration investigates innovation in higher education through dialectical approaches, presenting the entrepreneurial university as a thesis, the academic firm as an antithesis, and epistemic governance as a synthesis. Epistemic governance plays a key role in motivating innovation by integrating pluralistic knowledge and innovation modes.
The concept of “self-different fractal innovation systems”―structures that embody multiple, interacting modalities―enhances innovation potential through their fluid complexity. Good and effective governance of these systems encourages continual knowledge evolution, enabling the development of “next-knowledge”. This process, guided by the dialectics of innovation, forms new, integrated structures and networks.
The book emphasizes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, with the latter involving collaboration between scholars and user communities for real-world impact. It bridges science and art, suggesting that visual representations of self-different fractals inspire artistic research alongside scientific inquiry. Through examining both linear and non-linear systems, the authors reveal how conflicting principles can generate productive chaos, ultimately driving innovation, societal progress and knowledge democracy.
The future of governance is also the future of higher education.
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About the Author
David F.J. Campbell is a Higher Education Researcher at the University for
Continuing Education Krems in Austria; Associate Professor for Comparative
Political Science at the University of Vienna; and a Quality Enhancement Expert,
Quality Researcher and Publication Strategist at the University of Applied Arts in
Vienna.
Elias G. Carayannis is a Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship as well as the co-founder and co-director of the Global and
Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and the director of the
European Union Research Center (EURC) at the George Washington University
School of Business (GWSB).
Carayannis and Campbell jointly developed the theory of Quadruple and
Quintuple Helix Innovation Systems.
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