Global Webs of Knowledge

Education, Science, and Technology

Bibliographic Data

ID3759498
AuthorsThomas Schott (0000-0002-1285-8237, University of Pittsburgh)
Year2001
Volume44
Issue10
Pages1740-1751
Publication date2001-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027640121958014
OpenAlexW2312659619
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Knowledge is globally institutionalized as three differentiated and interpenetrating social institutions: education as a social institution for transmitting humankind's existing knowledge, science as a social institution for creating new knowledge that becomes a global public good, and technology as a social institution for creating new knowledge that becomes privately appropriated. These three social institutions are governed by a global regime that is anchored in a web of organizations that through an epistemic community of analysts of knowledge, formulates and promulgates policies for knowledge. In education, the regime promotes transmission of existing knowledge to youth through schooling and also through the movement of students around the world. In science, the regime supports creation and diffusion of new knowledge around the world through open publication. In technology, the regime promotes private appropriation of new knowledge through property rights in the form of patenting, which is increasingly global

Appropriation · Business · Epistemology · Institution · Intellectual property · Knowledge economy · Knowledge management · Knowledge Society · Political science · Public relations · Social institution · Social knowledge · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models

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