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Public or Private Economies of Knowledge? - Turbulence in the Biological Sciences (Paperback)
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Public or Private Economies of Knowledge? - Turbulence in the Biological Sciences (Paperback)
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The 'great divide' between public and private knowledge in
capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary
economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and
Brazil into the cutting edge of biological science and technology,
this book presents a novel framework for understanding this
historically shifting fault-line. Over the last quarter of a
century, major controversies have accompanied the dramatic
developments in biological science and technology. At critical
points, leading commercial companies were poised to take ownership
over the human genome and much new post-genomic knowledge. The
software tools for analysing the deluge of data also appeared, as
did expanding new markets for private enterprise. At the same time,
huge new public programmes of biological research were accompanied
by radical innovation in the institutions and organisation of
public knowledge. Would private marketable knowledge dominate over
the new public domain or vice versa? Surprisingly, the dynamism and
expansion of the public domain, and new forms of differentiation
and interdependence between public and private economies of
knowledge, now characterise the landscape. This book presents an
analytical framework for understanding the shifting 'great divide'
in capitalist economies of knowledge. The authors develop a novel
economic sociology of innovation, based on the 'instituted economic
process' approach. By focusing on economies of knowledge, they seek
to demonstrate that capitalism is multi-modal at its core, with
interdependent growth of market and non-market modes of production,
distribution, exchange and use. Public or Private Economies of
Knowledge? will appeal to those with an interest in innovation
studies, economic sociology and economic theory.
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