Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Some Attributes of Knowledge Production in Mode 2 -- The Coherence of Mode 2 -- Some Implications of Mode 2 -- 1 Evolution of Knowledge Production -- Summary -- On the Phenomenology of the New Mode of Knowledge Production -- The Dynamics of Mode 2 Knowledge Production -- References -- 2 The Marketability and Commercialisation of Knowledge -- Summary -- Scale and Scope in Knowledge Production -- Dynamic Competition and Knowledge Production -- The Commercialisation of Research -- The New Economics of Production -- Configurations of Knowledge -- New Dimensions of Quality Control -- Scale, Scope and the New Mode of Knowledge Production -- References -- 3 Massification of Research and Education -- Summary -- Patterns of Massification in Higher Education -- Collegiality, Managerialism and the Fragmentation of Knowledge -- Transition to the Knowledge Industries -- The Changing Nature of Technology Transfer -- Reference -- 4 The Case of the Humanities -- Summary -- Mode 2 Knowledge in Science and the Humanities: Similarities and Differences -- Contextualisation and Meaning in the Humanities -- References -- 5 Competitiveness, Collaboration and Globalisation -- Summary -- Network Firms, R&D Alliances and Enterprise Webs -- The Information Technology Paradigm -- Some Paradoxical Consequences of Globalisation -- References -- 6 Reconfiguring Institutions -- Summary -- The Strain of Multifunctionality -- Levels and Forms of Pluralisation -- The New Institutional Landscape of Knowledge Production -- Reference -- 7 Towards Managing Socially Distributed Knowledge -- Summary -- Three Phases of Science and Technology Policy -- Rethinking Basic Assumptions -- The Management of Distributed Knowledge Production -- Future Issues -- References -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index.