This book addresses the recent impact of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ as an economic ‘imaginary’ and as a set of real economic developments on educatio

First published in 2000. Over the past two decades, the service sector have increased dramatically and now occupy the largest share of the economy of advanced i

What is this knowledge-based economy? Is it really new or unique? What are its effects, and what does it mean to us? In order to help answer those questions, th

We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units a

"Challenging, theoretically rich yet anchored in detailed empirical analysis, Loet Leydesdorff's exploration of the dynamics of the knowledge-economy is a major