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This open access book addresses three themes which have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. In this study, I discuss the relations among these themes. Using Luhmann's social-systems theory for modelling meaning processing and Shannon's theory for information processing, I show that synergy can add new options to an innovation system as redundancy. The capacity to develop new options is more important for innovation than past performance. Entertaining a model of possible future states makes a knowledge-based system increasingly anticipatory. The trade-off between the incursion of future states on the historical developments can be measured using the Triple-Helix synergy indicator. This is shown, for example, for the Italian national and regional systems of innovation.

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• Full title: Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge
• Subtitle: Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science
• Author: Loet Leydesdorff
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• EAN: 9783030599539
• ISBN: 3030599531
• ID: 38755920
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 367 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2021

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