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A Simple Paradigm for Nooconomics, the Economy of Knowledge

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The human noosphere and its inner dynamic are forming a fascinating yet poorly understood multiscale complex system, in which one may represent the interaction of individual knowledge holders and their collective dynamic. Here I propose a simple, improvable paradigm for noodynamics (the study of knowledge flows) and nooconomics at large (the economy of knowledge) based on two intrinsic properties of knowledge—its prolificity and collegiality—and on three simple transfer laws capturing some fundamental differences between material and immaterial economics, namely (1) that knowledge exchanges, unlike property exchanges, are flows, and thus time-dependent, (2) that knowledge exchanges are positive sum, unlike material exchanges and (3) that combinations of knowledge are non-linear. I then make a suggestion for a basic knowledge flow equation, namely that transferred knowledge is proportional to the product of spent attention and time, and discuss some of its social and political implications.

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  • Knowledge economy
  • Noosphere
  • Multiscale dynamic
  • Knowledge flow
  • Noodynamics

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Notes

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    Two horizontal strokes may be added so as to indicate one @ is a currency.

  2. 2.

    In this case φ(k) represents a flow in the physical meaning of “instant quantity being transferred”, not in the economic meaning of “total transferred quantity”.

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    Idriss J. Aberkane

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Aberkane, I.J. (2017). A Simple Paradigm for Nooconomics, the Economy of Knowledge. In: Bourgine, P., Collet, P., Parrend, P. (eds) First Complex Systems Digital Campus World E-Conference 2015. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45901-1_30

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