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ORGANIZING INFORMATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM OR

TO ANSWER TO A QUESTION

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WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?

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«What if?»

MANKIND,LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE

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DEVELOPMENT OF MANKIND IS DEVELOPMENT OF MAN’S KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE

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What is scientific knowledge?

Refined common senseTooled knowledgeEmpirical testVerification and «falsification»Scientific «objectivity»

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curiosity and objectivity of scientific knowledge

The pleasure of finding things out

Richard Feynmann

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SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY

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SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY

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TWO OR THREE CULTURES?

• NATURAL SCIENCES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND «HUMANITIES»

• WHICH IS «TRUE» SCIENCE?

• SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND GLOBALIZATION

• THE «POST MODERN» DISCOURSE ON SCIENCE AND GLOBALIZATION

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• Formal learning• Individual experience• Organizational learning• R&D• FDI• Networking

•«learning»

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What

What for

Why

How

Who

What if?

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A MARKET FOR KNOWLEDGE?

• DEMAND AND SUPPLY IN THE «KNOWLEDGE MARKET»

• SUPPLY PUSH OR DEMAND PULL IN THE TRANSITION TO THE KBE?

• SPECIFICITIES OF THE KNOWLEDGE «MARKET»

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• KBE AND A «NEW MODE OF PRODUCTION» OF SCIENCE

• THE TRADITIONAL HIERARCHY: FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, APPLIED AND «DEVELOPMENT»

• The first is located in universities, the third in firms, according to the classic «mode of production»

• At present, this process is more complex, flexible and market oriented

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EG/MM I.7 THE PRODUCTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE