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Science in the Age of Knowledge Abundance

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This book suggests that understanding science communication as a network is perhaps the best way to develop and interject governing principles; it builds an argument for viewing the global network as a new form of organization of science on top of national or institutional forms. This chapter details the many changes to science that have occurred within the knowledge-creating system since the 1980s.

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    Ecc 12:11–13 NIV.

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    Nonaka and Toyama (2003, p. 2).

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    Nonaka further notes that this conceptualization of the interdependent connection between the entities and structure is similar to Giddens’ structuration theory (Anthony Giddens 1984). The existing theories that deal with a static status of an organization at one point in time cannot deal with dynamic processes, but that is the benefit of using a network approach.

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Wagner, C.S. (2018). Science in the Age of Knowledge Abundance. In: The Collaborative Era in Science. Palgrave Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94986-4_1

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