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Public Policy In Knowledge-Based Economies

Foundations and Frameworks

David Rooney , Greg Hearn , Thomas Mandeville , Richard Joseph

David Rooney, Associate Professor, UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia, Greg Hearn, Professor, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Thomas Mandeville, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia and Richard Joseph, Assistant State Manager (Program Solutions), WA Office, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Perth, Australia

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Series: New Horizons in Public Policy series



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Description
‘The style is refreshing; the authors cut through a great deal of the nonsense written in recent times about “knowledge management”; and take the ball away from the IT crowd and try to give it to the social thinkers.’
– Donald M. Lamberton, Australian National University, Australia

Knowledge is a product of human social systems and, therefore, the foundations of the knowledge-based economy are social and cultural. Communication is central to knowledge creation and diffusion, and Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies highlights specific social and cultural conditions that can enhance the communication, use and creation of knowledge in a society.

The purpose of this book is to illustrate how these social and cultural conditions are identified and analysed through new conceptual frameworks. Such frameworks are necessary to penetrate the surface features of knowledge-based economies – science and technology – and disclose what drives such economies.

Contents
Contents: Preface Introduction 1. What is Knowledge? 2. Defining the Knowledge Economy 3. The Global Context of the Knowledge Economy 4. Complexity and Changing Knowledge Systems 5. Micro Contexts: Decisionmaking and Risk 6. Foundations for Knowledge-Related Policy 7. Beyond Information Policy 8. Knowledge Policies and the Role of Government in the 21st Century 9. Epilogue References Index