Organizations and Innovation within the Biotechnology Industry in China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Interaction Network ◽  
Biotechnology Industry ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Organizational Features

This article explores the research patterns and organizational features within R&D sector in China's biotechnology industry, delineating the innovation in knowledge production and industrial development. The more recent development of China's biotechnology industry is briefly overviewed from an interdisciplinary perspective, whilst a set of salient features embodied by social actors are envisaged as have so far strongly shaped the market-based, commercially driven mode of scientific knowledge production in the R&D activities. Furthermore, this mode serves as a premise to the innovation of the interaction-network. The implications derived from this analytical work shed a new light upon policy-making both at the level of S&T governance and in the management practice in China's biotechnology industry.

Active Coeliac: Disassembling Gluten and Coeliac Disease

Somatechnics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Sofia Varino
Keyword(s):  
Coeliac Disease ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Gluten Free ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
Object A ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
New Materialisms

This article follows the trajectories of gluten in the context of Coeliac disease as a gastrointestinal condition managed by lifelong adherence to a gluten-free diet. Oriented by the concept of gluten as an actant (Latour), I engage in an analysis of gluten as a participant in volatile relations of consumption, contact, and contamination across coeliac eating. I ask questions about biomedical knowledge production in the context of everyday dietary practices alongside two current scientific research projects developing gluten-degrading enzymes and gluten-free wheat crops. Following the new materialisms of theorists like Elizabeth A. Wilson, Jane Bennett, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, I approach gluten as an alloy, an impure object, a hybrid assemblage with self-organizing and disorganizing capacity, not entirely peptide chain nor food additive, not only allergen but also the chewy, sticky substance that gives pizza dough its elastic, malleable consistency. Tracing the trajectories of gluten, this article is a case study of the tricky, slippery capacity of matter to participate in processes of scientific knowledge production.

Scientific Knowledge Production Processes

2004 ◽  
pp. 136-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Boden ◽  
Deborah Cox ◽  
Maria Nedeva ◽  
Katharine Barker
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production

scholarly journals Known unknowns: Filling the gaps in scientific knowledge production in the Caatinga

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. e0219359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thainá Lessa ◽  
Janisson W. dos Santos ◽  
Ricardo A. Correia ◽  
Richard J. Ladle ◽  
Ana C. M. Malhado
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
Known Unknowns

scholarly journals Changing times for management educators: Rethinking engagement with participatory forms of knowledge production

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Harrington ◽  
Jeremy C. Short ◽  
Briga Hynes
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Changing Role

Abstract Oscar Wilde once quipped, ‘Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.’ Whilst business scholars have challenged this premise, debate rages concerning what elements are most worth knowing. Specifically, the value of rigorous academic research is often weighed against the merits of specific student experiences that may have more immediate value in the marketplace. Within this changed context, academics are challenged to embrace collaborative forms of research activity and re-imagine the nature of the academic-practitioner exchange and accompanying knowledge transfer. We explore this changing role of the business school with an eye towards outlining potential bridges between academic knowledge and benefits of interactions with practice. Specifically, we consider the academic-practitioner interface in the context of the wider debate on ‘rigour and relevance’ in management education and research. Participatory modes of knowledge production are discussed, and current ideas on the ‘management practice’ gap are discussed. We conclude that more innovative forms of research engagement are required to encourage academic-practitioner collaboration. To that end, we discuss a number of potential approaches to help foster co-learning and discovery and debate their student, educator and broader instructional implications.

scholarly journals Geopolítica do conhecimento e da informação: semiperiferia e estratégias de desenvolvimento | Geopolitics of knowledge and information: the semiperiphery and development strategies

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maíra Baumgarten
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Strategic Knowledge ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Social Organizational

Resumo Este artigo é fruto dos debates e reflexões vinculados à preparação e realização da mesa “Geopolítica da informação e do conhecimento e suas implicações nas estratégias de desenvolvimento” no Seminário “Desenvolvimento em Questão: que sociedade da informação e do conhecimento?”, realizado no Rio de Janeiro, em setembro de 2006. A partir das três intervenções ocorridas durante o evento e dos debates que se seguiram, são abordados os temas relativos às desigualdades (no âmbito social, organizacional e territorial) no acesso a informações e conhecimentos estratégicos e desigualdades na capacidade de inovação e aprendizado. São debatidas, ainda, as novas formas de apropriação e privatização de conhecimentos estratégicos e, também, os requisitos para as políticas de C&T e sua relação com o desenvolvimento. O conjunto de questões levantado a partir das exposições foi bastante rico e seu eixo principal girou em torno das dificuldades envolvidas nos processos de comercialização da C&T, das vantagens e desvantagens da concentração da produção do conhecimento científico e da importância de políticas voltadas à resolução dos problemas ocasionados pela concentração demasiada. O grande consenso foi sobre a necessidade da formulação e implementação de políticas adequadas às peculiaridades nacionais e locais. Outro tema abordado foi o das tecnologias convencionais e tecnologias sociais e sua aplicação em diferentes contextosPalavras-chave: Geopolítica do conhecimento e da informação; desenvolvimento; ciência e tecnologia; inovação social, tecnologias sociais, comercialização de C&T  Abstract This article is based on the debate and reflexions on the round-table “Geopolitics of information and knowledge” in the Seminar “Development in Question: what information or knowledge society?” (2006). The main issues discussed are inequalities (social, organizational and territorial) in the access to information and strategic knowledge and in the capacity for learning and innovation; the new forms of appropriation and privatization of strategic knowledge; and the needs of S&T policies and  how they relate to development. These issues generated a rich debate around the themes of the difficulties involved in the processes of commercialization of S&T, advantages and disadvantages of the concentration of scientific knowledge production, and the importance of policies addressing the problems caused by its excessive concentration. There was a consensus on the necessity of formulating and implementing policies appropriate to local and national peculiarities. Another issu addressed was that of conventional technologies as well as of social technologies and their possible applications in different contexts. Keywords Geopolitics of knowledge and information; development; science and technology; social innovation; social technologies; commercialization of S&T  

scholarly journals How Does Indonesian Scientific Production on Renewable Energy Successfully Support the Policy Design? A Journey Towards Sustainable Energy Transition

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Iqbal Akbar ◽  
◽  
Dhandy Arisaktiwardhana ◽  
Prima Naomi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production

The aim to achieve the target of a 23% share of sustainable energies in the total Indonesia’s primary energy supply requires enormous amounts of works. Indonesia’s scientific knowledge production can support a successful transition to renewables. However, policy makers struggle to determine how the transition benefits from the scientific production on renewable. A bibliometric study using scientific publication data from the Web of Science (WoS) is used to probe how Indonesian scientific knowledge production can support the policy design for transition to sustainable energy. The seven focused disciplines are geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, bio, hybrid, and energy policy and economics. Based on the data from the above-listed disciplines, a deeper analysis is conducted, and implications to the policy design are constructed. The study reveals that bio energy is the focus of the research topics produced in Indonesia, followed by solar and hydro energy. Most RE research is related to the applied sciences. The innovation capability in the form of technology modifiers and technology adapters supports the transition to sustainable energy in Indonesia. The research on bio energy, however, is characterized by higher basic knowledge than research on solar and hydro energy. This suggests low barriers to the access to the resources and to the completion of bio research in Indonesia. Designing Indonesian energy policy by comprising discriminatively specific sustainable energy sources in the main policy instruments can therefore accelerate the sustainable transition and development.

scholarly journals The market as lived experience: on the knowledge of markets in antitrust analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-190
Author(s):  
Gustavo Onto
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Market Practice ◽  
Lateral Modes ◽  
Antitrust Analysis

This article describes some of the reported thoughts, anecdotal observations and analytic practices of advisors and commissioners working at the Brazilian antitrust body (CADE) regarding the markets, industries, sectors - i.e. the economic world - which they aim to understand and regulate. The activity of these professionals primarily requires an evaluation of certain market characteristics in order to establish strategies for the investigation of allegations of anti-competitive market practice and for passing judgment on administrative cases filed before the antitrust tribunal. Based on interviews with these professionals and participant observation of their analytical work, this article seeks to describe modes of knowing and conceiving markets which are parallel to the modes officially and more explicitly relied upon by antitrust bureaucrats. We present these lateral modes of knowing as a set of personal lived experiences and compare them to ethnographic practices of knowledge production, in order to reflect on the importance of lived experience in the anthropological and sociological literature on markets.

scholarly journals Ontological Opportunism

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-51
Author(s):  
Anne Dippel
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
Energy Physics

Understanding inanimate ‘nature-as-such’ is traditionally considered the object of physics in Europe. The discipline acts as exemplary discursive practice of scientific knowledge production. However, as my ethnographic investigation of doing and communicating high energy physics demonstrates, animist conceptions seep into the ontological understanding of physics’ ‘objects’, resonating with contemporary concepts of new materialism, new animism and feminist science and technology studies, signifying an atmospheric shift in the understanding of ‘nature’. Drawing on my fieldwork at CERN, I argue that scientists take an opportunist stance to animate concepts of ‘nature’, depending on whom they’re talking to. I am showing how the inanimate in physics is reanimated especially in scientific outreach activities and how the universalist scientific cosmology overlaps with indigenous cosmologies, as for example the Lakota ones.

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