scholarly journals A Kraft-index – kreatív városok – fenntartható vidék (The KRAFT Index: Creative Cities – Sustainable Regions)

2013 ◽  
pp. 2-21
Author(s):  
Ferenc Miszlivetz ◽  
Eszter Márkus
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Academic Networks ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Production Knowledge

A KRAFT-index: Kreatív városok – fenntartható vidék egy komplex mutatórendszer, amely a fejlődési tendenciát, hálózatosodást, a fontosabb szereplők együttműködési készségét és kapacitását, kreativitási potenciálját, valamint a szereplők szinergiáiból fakadó belső energiákat és lehetőségeiket jelzi. A város- és vidékfejlesztés sikerének zálogaként előtérbe állítja és méri az ún. „puha” tényezőket, úgymint a kreativitást, innovációs képességet, új tudás létrehozását, tudástranszfert, együttműködési készséget, bizalmat, kollektív kompetenciákat. A társadalmi, gazdasági és tudományos kapcsolatok és hálózatok sűrűsége, minősége és dinamizmusa a sikeres fejlődés és fejlesztés kulcsai: ezek ma már fontosabb tényezők, mint a fizikai távolság, az adminisztratív jogi határok vagy az ún. „kemény” indikátorok. Az index értékeli egy térség lehetőségeit arra, hogy az ott élők, dolgozók, alkotók és letelepedni kívánók életminőségét, a vállalatok minőségi munkaerő iránti igényét és a fenntarthatósági szempontokat egyaránt figyelembe véve fejlessze gazdaságát és versenyképességét. Három tulajdonságcsoportot mér: 1. kreativitiási és innovációs potenciál, az új tudás létrehozásának képessége, 2. társadalmi és kapcsolati tőke, hálózati potenciál és „összekapcsoltság”, valamint 3. fenntarthatósági potenciál. _____ The KRAFT Index: Creative Cities – Sustainable Regions is a complex indicator system to measure development tendencies, ‘networkedness’, cooperation inclination and capacity, creativity potential and possibilities arising from the synergies among actors. It highlights and gauges ‘soft’ factors, such as creativity, innovation capacity, knowledge production, knowledge transfer, willingness for cooperation, trust, and collective competences and perceives effective regional cooperation among economic and social actors as the measure of successful urban and rural development. The density, quality and dynamism of social, economic and academic networks are more important factors than physical distance, administrative legal barriers or ‘hard’ indicators. The index evaluates the potential of a region to develop its economy and competitiveness by considering the quality of life of its inhabitants, workers, producers and immigrants, the quality workforce requirements of companies and sustainability. It measures three groups of qualities: 1. creativity and innovation potential, the ability of knowledge production; 2. social and connection capital, network potential and connectedness; and 3. sustainability potential.

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.

Lecture Performance as Contemporary Dance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maaike Bleeker
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Bodily Knowledge ◽  
Experimental Dance ◽  
Production Knowledge

The “lecture performance” is a key genre in the field of Konzepttanz. Prominently present in the early twenty-first-century scene of experimental dance, this genre is not limited to dance only, nor is it exclusively German. Lecture performances give expression to an understanding of dance as a form of knowledge production—knowledge not (or not only) about dance but also dance as a specific form of knowledge that raises questions about the nature of knowledge and about practices of doing research. This chapter situates this trend within a genealogy of bodily knowledge and its academic dissemination that had reached its first high point in the dance conventions during the Weimar years. By analyzing particular examples of lecture performances, it demonstrates the self-reflexive structures that emerge between scientific paper and corporeal act. It explains in which ways lecture performances redefine what it means to be a dancer, seeing it as an attitude rather than a profession.

scholarly journals Challenges of Remote Leadership in a Digitalized Working World 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Dietrich H. Steude
Keyword(s):  
Physical Distance ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Working World

Abstract The digital transformation of industry is driving the advance of agile work structures and, in particular, home office working. This article examines the question of what effect the physical distance of employees from the company has on its productivity and innovation potential, and what challenges are posed to a remote leadership.

The Emperor’s New Genes

2015 ◽  
Vol 661 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruha Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Recognition ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Genes ◽  
Scale Population ◽  
Human Difference ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Population Mapping

This article addresses the politics of genomics through three diagnoses: The first, diagnosing objectivity, discusses how researchers involved in a large-scale population mapping initiative distinguish genomics as relatively objective, compared to other forms of knowledge production. The second case, diagnosing nationality, examines an attempt by the UK Border Agency to use genetic ancestry testing to vet asylum claims. The third case, diagnosing indigeneity, considers how indigenous councils in southern Africa engage genomic science in their struggle for state recognition and rights. I argue that genomics’ allure of objectivity lends itself to such diagnostic attempts among both powerful and subaltern social actors and suggest that developing “technologies of humility” may provide one safeguard against the increasing uptake of genomics as the authority on human difference.

Travail d’articulation et organisations-frontières dans la recherche urbaine française

2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabien Milanovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
Sciences Sociales ◽  
Organizational Problems

English The multiplication of locations and the differentiation of social actors encountered in contemporary sciences raise organizational problems. Basing itself on a case study in the social sciences, viz. French urban research, this article offers an analysis of the institutional articulation process that enables both the activities of knowledge production to be linked to other social activities and the researchers to interact with other classes of social actors. The article thus suggests a setting in perspective of the contemporary modes of knowledge production, taking into account their diversity as well as their political stakes. French La multiplication des sites et la différenciation des acteurs que l'on rencontre dans les sciences contemporaines posent des proble`mes en termes d'organisation. En s'appuyant sur une étude de cas en sciences sociales, la recherche urbaine française, cet article propose une analyse du travail institutionnel d'articulation qui a pour objet de permettre à la fois aux activités de production de connaissances scientifiques d'être connectées à d'autres activités sociales et aux chercheurs d'interagir avec d'autres types d'acteurs. C'est ainsi à une mise en perspective des actuels modes de production des savoirs qu'invite ce texte, qui fasse cas de leur pluralité et de leurs enjeux politiques.

Quantum Modeling of Social Dynamics

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Bisconti ◽  
A. Corallo ◽  
M. De Maggio ◽  
F. Grippa ◽  
S. Totaro
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Mathematic Model ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
Quantum Modeling

In this paper, the authors apply models extracted from the Many-Body Quantum Mechanics to understand how knowledge production is correlated to the innovation potential of a work team. This study is grounded in key assumtpions. First, complexity theory applied to social science suggests that it is of paramount importance to consider elements of non-objectivity and non-determinism in the statistical description of socio-economic phenomena. Second, a typical factor of indeterminacy in the explanation of these phenomena lead to the need to apply the instruments of quantum physics to formally describe social behaviours. In order to experiment the validity of the proposed mathematic model, the research intends to: 1) model nodes and interactions; 2) simulate the network behaviour starting from specific defined models; 3) visualize the macroscopic results emerging during the analysis/simulation phases through a digital representation of the social network.

scholarly journals Is old age always already heterosexual (and cisgender)? The LGBT Gerontology and the formation of the "LGBT elders"

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-154
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Henning
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Bisexual

Abstract This article seeks to present an anthropological and critical view of the development of a thriving field of knowledge production (especially present in North America) which for some decades has investigated the aging processes among lesbians, gay men and bisexual and transgender people. This field, still relatively unknown in Brazil and in South America as a whole, has been named "LGBT Gerontology ". Thus my interest lies in critically and systematically presenting and contextualizing the main trends, controversies and theoretical debates in this field, as well as their recent implications on the complex constitution, legitimation and creation of public policies concerning the new social actors, who rise concomitantly - the "LGBT seniors."

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