Indicators of innovation in a knowledgebased economy

The concept of ‘modes of knowledge production’ was used by Gibbons et al. (1994) to distinguish between transdisciplinary (‘Mode 2’) R&D and more traditional (‘Mode 1’) research. This paper explores whether the Internet provides a means to operationalize ‘Mode 2’ knowledge production as containi...

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Autor: Leydesdorff, Loet
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/174365
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/174365
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Innovation
Pharma
Scientometrics
Citation
Search
Knowledge
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Sumario:The concept of ‘modes of knowledge production’ was used by Gibbons et al. (1994) to distinguish between transdisciplinary (‘Mode 2’) R&D and more traditional (‘Mode 1’) research. This paper explores whether the Internet provides a means to operationalize ‘Mode 2’ knowledge production as containing a differently codified communication pattern which can be compared to co-word and citation patterns in scientometric databases (‘Mode 1’). Innovations on the drugs market, for example, can be indicated at the commercial end by using the trade names of the drugs (e.g., Evista), while the very same innovation can be retrieved in the patent and science citation databases using the generic names of the active substances involved (in this case, raloxifene). By using the generic names the new drugs can be traced back into their respective knowledge bases