scholarly journals Knowledge Economy in Brazil: Analysis of Sectoral Concentration and Production by Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
José Antonio de França ◽  
Wilfredo Sosa Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Concentration Index ◽  
Concentration Level ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Location Quotient ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Postgraduate Level

The research presented in this article investigates and analyzes the concentration of knowledge production in Brazil, in the context of a public policy, at postgraduate level, by using the spectral methods grounded on the LQ (location quotient) and CI (concentration index) indicators, in three dimensions, from 2013 to 2018. The dimensions are economics, geography, and time. Economics is represented by Fields and Major Fields of knowledge production. Geography corresponds to the regions identified by each Federation unit (FU). Time is a chronological unit of the timeline in which knowledge is produced. The research then evaluates knowledge concentration in the income performance of the families by FU. The results are robust and indicate significant evidence that sectorial knowledge production in Brazil is regionally unequal and impacts on family incomes, but those family incomes evolve regardless of the knowledge concentration level produced. The research contributions are relevant to assist public policy regulators and monitoring managers, as well as to encourage future discoveries in regional economics applications.

scholarly journals Knowledge Economy in Brazil: Analysis of Sectoral Concentration and Production by Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
José Antonio de França ◽  
Wilfredo Sosa Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Concentration Index ◽  
Concentration Level ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Location Quotient ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Postgraduate Level

The research presented in this article investigates and analyzes the concentration of knowledge production in Brazil, in the context of a public policy, at postgraduate level, by using the spectral methods grounded on the LQ (location quotient) and CI (concentration index) indicators, in three dimensions, from 2013 to 2018. The dimensions are economics, geography, and time. Economics is represented by Fields and Major Fields of knowledge production. Geography corresponds to the regions identified by each Federation unit (FU). Time is a chronological unit of the timeline in which knowledge is produced. The research then evaluates knowledge concentration in the income performance of the families by FU. The results are robust and indicate significant evidence that sectorial knowledge production in Brazil is regionally unequal and impacts on family incomes, but those family incomes evolve regardless of the knowledge concentration level produced. The research contributions are relevant to assist public policy regulators and monitoring managers, as well as to encourage future discoveries in regional economics applications.

scholarly journals The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sergio Catignani ◽  
Victoria M. Basham
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Army Reserves ◽  
Multiple Challenges

Abstract This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional’ for political, military, economic, and social advancement. As feminist interpretive researchers examining an institution that prizes masculinist and functionalist methodologies, instrumentalised knowledge production, and highly formalised ethics approval processes, we faced multiple challenges to how we were able to conduct our research, who we were able to access, and what we were able to say. We show how military assumptions about what constitutes proper ‘research’, bolstered by knowledge economy logics, reinforces gendered power relationships that keep hidden the significant roles women (in our case, the partners/spouses of reservists) play in state security. Accordingly, we argue that the functionalist and masculinist logics interpretive researchers face in the age of the knowledge economy help more in sustaining orthodox modes of knowledge production about militaries and security, and in reinforcing gendered power relations, than they do in advancing knowledge.

Inflation, Unemployment, and Government Collapse

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN D. ROBERTSON
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Discrete Events ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Initial Application ◽  
Political Costs ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Incumbent Regime

As democracies enter an era of economic retrenchment, the political costs associated with economic decline have come under close scrutiny by students of comparative politics and public policy. Of particular concern is the linkage between inflation, unemployment, and the collapse of incumbent governments. The present study provides an initial application of an alternative approach to measuring this linkage across 8 European democracies, and offers significant evidence linking political costs for cabinet governments with rising prices and the growing unemployment. By utilizing the Poisson method of determining probabilities of discrete events, increasing probabilities of government collapse are significantly associated with rising inflation and unemployment in European democracies between January 1958 and December 1979. Subsequent use of the Sanders and Herman's (1977) and Warwick (1979) analyses of cabinet stability provides a useful means to disaggregate the nation sample of the study into four discrete subsets of nations. After applying the model developed in the current study to these separate subsets, it is concluded that the more significant the change in rates of inflation and unemployment, the more likely the pattern of government collapse will be interrupted by the unexpected termination of an incumbent regime.

scholarly journals ‘Politics done like science’: Critical perspectives on psychological governance and the experimental state

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys Jones ◽  
Mark Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Experimental Knowledge ◽  
Academic Recognition ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
Critical Perspectives

There has been a growing academic recognition of the increasing significance of psychologically – and behaviourally – informed modes of governance in recent years in a variety of different states. We contend that this academic research has neglected one important theme, namely the growing use of experiments as a way of developing and testing novel policies. Drawing on extensive qualitative and documentary research, this paper develops critical perspectives on the impacts of the psychological sciences on public policy, and considers more broadly the changing experimental form of modern states. The tendency for emerging forms of experimental governance to be predicated on very narrow, socially disempowering, visions of experimental knowledge production is critiqued. We delineate how psychological governance and emerging forms of experimental subjectivity have the potential to enable more empowering and progressive state forms and subjectivities to emerge through more open and collective forms of experimentation.

scholarly journals DIMENSIONS OF PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION POLICIES: THE NECESSARY INCLUSION OF EVERYDAY POLITICS

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
SEMÍRAMIS BIASOLI ◽  
MARCOS SORRENTINO
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Fourth Dimension ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
Everyday Politics

Abstract Environmental education needs to be molded as a structuring public policy, in addition to specific projects and programs in order to gain effectiveness in combating the socio-environmental and civilizational crisis. This demands the unveiling of the concept of public policies, which is the purpose of this study. The concept of multi-center public policies, as a result of government and other social players’ action, is used here. The results in the literature establish the need for three dimensions involved in the cycle of public policies presented by Frey: policy, polity and politics and, in this study, the essentiality of a fourth dimension is considered: that of everyday politics, which is related to instituting social forces and their importance in the construction of public policies intended to be participatory.

The Normative Frameworks of Public Policy

1989 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Jobert
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Policy Frameworks

This article suggests some tools for the analysis of social conceptions that shape the policy-making process. It defines the three dimensions of policy frameworks and their links with the related notions of paradigm and myth. It analyses the institutionalization of policy framework building and its impact on power relations within the French policy-making process.

Beyond constructivism: navigationism in the knowledge era

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

PurposeThis paper seeks to discuss past and present paradigm shifts in education and then to explore possible future learning paradigms in the light of the knowledge explosion in the knowledge era that is currently being entered.Design/methodology/approachNew learning paradigms and paradigm shifts are explored.FindingsLearning processes and learning paradigms are still very much founded in a content‐driven and knowledge production paradigm. The rapid developments in information and communication technologies already have and will continue to have a profound impact on information processing, knowledge production and learning paradigms. One needs to acknowledge the increasing role and impact of technology on education and training. One has already experienced enormous challenges in coping with the current overflow of available information. It is difficult to imagine what it will be like when the knowledge economy is in its prime.Practical implicationsInstitutions should move away from providing content per se to learners. It is necessary to focus on how to enable learners to find, identify, manipulate and evaluate information and knowledge, to integrate this knowledge in their world of work and life, to solve problems and to communicate this knowledge to others. Teachers and trainers should become coaches and mentors within the knowledge era – the source of how to navigate in the ocean of available information and knowledge – and learners should acquire navigating skills for a navigationist learning paradigm.Originality/valueThis paper stimulates out‐of‐the‐box thinking about current learning paradigms and educational and training practices. It provides a basis to identify the impact of the new knowledge economy on the way one deals with information and knowledge and how one deals with learning content and content production. It emphasizes that the focus should not be on the creation of knowledge per se, but on how to navigate in the ocean of available knowledge and information. It urges readers to anticipate the on future and to explore alternative and appropriate learning paradigms.

Innovation and development: a revision of the Latin American thought

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Jasso ◽  
Maria del Carmen Del Valle ◽  
Ismael Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Structural Heterogeneity ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
State Participation ◽  
Latin American Thought ◽  
Analytical Frameworks ◽  
American Thought

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the contributions of what has been established as Latin American thought, as science, technology, and innovation (STI) in Latin America have been strongly related to development. Design/methodology/approach The analysis method is based on the review of a group of Latin American and Latinoamericanista (Latin Americanist) authors who were selected on the basis of their contributions to the explanation and proposals of public policy related to STI. The following are some of the questions that guide the analysis. How much has STI in Latin American thought contributed to the development theory? Given the fact that there are other dominant mainstreams, can we say that Latin American thought is still relevant? Findings The main conclusion of this work is that Latin American thought is still applied to current Latin American development discussions. This can be proven by the creation of particular concepts and analytical frameworks such as structural heterogeneity, development styles, authentic and spurious competitiveness, Sabato’s Triangle, the centre-periphery model, and STI policy practices. Originality/value This paper gathered contributions and categorised them into three dimensions: state participation (intensity, composition), industrialisation as the impulse for development, and instruments and public policy actions that can be implemented or have already been implemented.

scholarly journals Sustainability: A Public Policy, a Concept, or a Competence? Efforts on the Implementation of Sustainability as a Transversal Competence throughout Higher Education Programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13989
Author(s):  
Jorge Membrillo-Hernández ◽  
Vianney Lara-Prieto ◽  
Patricia Caratozzolo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Challenge Based Learning ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Original Concept

The concept of sustainability emerged globally in the 1987 Brundtland Report. Initially, it comprised three dimensions: environmental, social, and economic. Over time, sustainability became a global necessity that led to the establishment in 2015 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), so that sustainability became a public policy of extreme urgency. Thirty-four years later, there is an imperative need to expand the original concept not in a public policy but in a competence that graduates of higher education develop, regardless of their studied academic program. We propose sustainability as a transversal competence. Our work describes the path that a higher education institution in Mexico, Tecnologico de Monterrey, has followed to accomplish this task. The new educational model Tec21 based on challenge-based learning experiences has a focus on the development of sustainability competences and actions ownership towards solving the problems described in the 17 SDGs. Our proposed definition for the sustainability transversal competence is: “The student possesses the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the successful performance of the task and the resolution of problems related to the challenges and opportunities for sustainability in today’s world”. Thus, education is both an objective and a means to achieve all the other SDGs.

Social Work Research in Chile: Tensions and Challenges under the ‘Knowledge Economy’ and Managerialist Research Agendas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianinna Muñoz-Arce ◽  
Gabriela Rubilar-Donoso
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Context Specific

Abstract Research has been a contested dimension of Chilean social work. An important turn occurred in 2008 when Chilean national research policies—highly influenced by managerialist approaches—increased opportunities for social workers to conduct research. Several efforts have been made by academics and professional social work organisations to encourage research as a means of gaining recognition as a discipline. Drawing upon a thematic literature review from a Chilean-based study on social workers’ research trajectories, this article contends that, despite the value of such efforts, there are some tensions related to the acritical adoption of such a managerialist approach on social work research that need further attention: (i) research does not have the same value for all social work sectors; (ii) social work research is mainly understood as ‘academic’ research; and (iii) social workers’ research does not necessarily have a ‘social work focus’. These findings are discussed in light of the historical background of Chilean social work and the insights provided by the international literature, from which we conclude that the creation of more inclusive and collaborative ways of conducting research is an urgent challenge. Findings are context-specific, yet, offer considerations for social work research seeking to counteract managerial approaches of knowledge production.

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