The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge

Knowledge-Based Innovations and Social Coordination.- The Spring of "1968" in Prague, Paris, and Amsterdam.- Science & Technology Policies in the West.- Science Studies: The Sociological Perspective.- The Habermas-Luhmann Discussion,- "Wertfreiheit".- Meaning and Information.- "Luhmann Reconsidered".- Codification.- Hu[1]sserl's "intersubjective intentionality".- Autopoiesis.- Parsons' Media Theory.- The Triple Helix Model.- Anticipatory systems.- The Measurement of Triple-Helix Synergy,- Concluding Remarks.- Part One: The Sociocybernetics of Scientific Knowledge.- The Communication Turn in Philosophy of Science.- Discursive Knowledge.- The modern citation as an example of codification.- The communication perspective.- Operationalization and Measurement.- Concluding Remarks.- Scientific Communication and Codification.- The Status of Cognitive Structures.- Codification in Communications.- Beliefs versus Rationalized Expectations.-  "Structuration" by Expectations.- Biological and Cybernetic Metaphors.- Sociocybernetics.- Concluding Remarks.- Towards a Calculus of Redundancy.- The Network Graph and the Vector SpaceDimensions and Dynamics of Information.- Levels B and C in the Shannon Diagram.- Scholarly Discourse and Codification.- Redundancy and Evolution.- The Generation of Mutual Redundancy.- Generalization.- Clockwise and Anti-Clockwise Rotations.- Summary and Conclusions.- Part Two: Synergy in Triple-Helix Relations.- Evolutionary and Institutional Triple Helix Models.- Historical Trajectories and Evolutionary Regimes.- From Dialectics to Triads.- The Knowledge-Based Economy.- Triads and Simmelian Ties in Triple-Helix Configurations.- The Generalized TH Model of Innovations.- Institutional and Evolutionary TH-Models.- The Measurement of Triple-Helix Configurations.- Synergy in Co-Authorship Relations in South Korea.- Synergy in Innovation Systems across Sweden.- Discussion.- Regions, Innovations, and the North-South Divide in Italy.- Innovation Policies and Innovation Systems in Italy.- Methods.- Data and Descriptive Statistics.- The Geographical Distribution of Firms in Italy.- Small, Medium-Sized, and Large Enterprises.- The Technological Dimension (NACE codes).- Results.- Regions.- Northern, Central, and Southern Italy.- Sectorial Decomposition.- Conclusions and Discussion.- Policy Implications.- The Measurement of Synergy.-  "Synergy"A Toy Model.- Vector coordinates.- Empirical Applications.- Synergy in international co-authorship relations.- Synergy in aggregated citation relations among journals.- Discussion and concluding remarks.- Part Three: The Dynamics of Expectations and Knowledge.- Anticipation and the Dynamics of Expectations.- Popper's Perspective on the Growth of Knowledge   .- The Hyper-Incursive Order of Expectations  .- The Differentia Specifica of Inter-Human Communications.- The Theory and Computation of Anticipations.- Incursive and Hyper-Incursive Equations.- Solving the Equations  .- Sim...