Knowledge Alchemy: Models and Agency in Global Knowledge Governance - Couverture rigide

Erkkilä, Tero; Chou, Meng-Hsuan; Kauppi, Niilo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1529214408 ISBN 13 : 9781529214406

Editeur : Bristol University Press, 2023

Synopsis

This book introduces the concept of 'knowledge alchemy' to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies of governance into competitive ones following imagined global gold standards. Using examples from North America, Europe and Asia, it explores how knowledge alchemy increasingly informs national and institutional policies and practices on economic performance, higher education, research and innovation.

The book examines how governments around the world have embraced global models of world-class university, human capital and talent competition as essential in ensuring national competitiveness. Through its analysis, the book shows how this strongly future-oriented and anticipatory knowledge governance is steered by a surge of global classifications, rankings and indicators, resulting in numerous comparisons of various domains that today form more constraining global policy scripts.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Tero Erkkilä is Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Meng-Hsuan Chou is Associate Professor and Provost's Chair in Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Niilo Kauppi is CNRS Research Professor at the University of Strasbourg, France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529214408
• ISBN 13: 9781529214406
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 206
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