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I've been asked to inform list members about this book, and I agreed because it does seem to be very much 'on-topic': there are specific sections on the role of contract researchers, and it may be of interest to anyone contemplating the 'bigger picture' and where universities are heading. The book is due to be published in August. The announcement comes from Carolyn Birch at the Open University Press, so enquiries should go to her NOT to me: [log in to unmask] The Future of Knowledge Production in the Academy Merle Jacob & Tomas Hellstrom (eds) - What are the most significant challenges posed by new modes of organizing knowledge production in the academy? - How are academic-industry partnerships managed? - What is the future role of the university in the knowledge society? The new knowledge society is characterized by a growing partnership between the university and industry. What are the implications for academics of such partnerships? What happens when the production of academic research is reorganized to reflect corporate structures and ambitions? What will future academic institutions be like? Does the nation state still have a role in determining how national science systems should be organized? This volume explores knowledge management in the university and beyond from the perspective of researchers working in academic-industry partnerships. Its re-examination of the role of the academy in knowledge production (and in society) is important reading for all academic researchers, for academic managers, and for students and scholars in science studies and the sociology of knowledge. Contents Foreword by Steve Fuller - Introduction - Part one: A new research context - 'Mode 2' in context: the contract researcher, the university and the knowledge society - Fashions, lock-ins and the heterogeneity of knowledge production - The evolution of the entrepreneurial university - Part two: Mapping newly emerging issues in knowledge production - Reciprocities and reputations in social science research - From networking researchers to the networked university - Emerging issues in R&D evaluation: the case of university-industry partnership networks - Part three: Making the future - Hierarchical fragmentation: putting labour back into the politics of academic knowledge - One model for the institutionalization of university-industry partnerships: the FENIX research programme - Imagining the future university - Index - Bibliography. August 2000 192pp 0 335 20616 6 Paperback 19.99 0 335 20617 4 Hardback 60.00 Market Scholars and researchers in the field of higher education. Advanced students and academics in the sociology of science/technology, and the sociology of knowledge. Subject Classification Higher Education Contributors Niclas Adler, Henry Etzkowitz, Steve Fuller, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Tomas Hellstrom, Merle Jacob, Flemming Norrgren, Arie Rip, Eugene Schuler, Elizabeth Shove, Raman Sujatha. Competition Etzkowitz et al (1998) Capitalizing Knowledge SUNY Press. Gibbons et al (1994) The New Production of Knowledge Sage Publications. Slaughter and Leslie (1997) Academic Capitalism, Johns Hopkins University Press. Cover Copy Merle Jacob (PhD) is leader of the research group that studies the relations and processes of knowl edge creation in academic-industry research cooperation at the FENIX Research Program. She has published mainly in the area of policy studies and academic-industry relations. She is currently co-authoring a book with Tomas Hellstrom that will be entitled Knowledge, Policy and Risk and will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Tomas Hellstrom (PhD) is at the FENIX Research Program at Chalmers University of Technology, which is a cooperative research and education programme between the university and a number of large Swedish multinationals. He is currently leading the Research Group on 'Strategic Knowledge and Risk Management' (SKRAM!), which revolves around several projects on knowledge management and risk management conducted in cooperation with business and public organizations around Europe. He has published mainly in the area of policy studies, risk management and philosophy of science. He is currently working on his next book, Knowledge, Policy and Risk. Co-published with the Society for Research into Higher Education THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE ACADEMY Merle Jacob and Tomas Hellstrom (eds) FENIX Research Programme, Chalmers University of Technology Sweden. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%