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Self-Different Fractals and Innovation - David F. J. Campbell, Elias G. Carayannis

Self-Different Fractals and Innovation

Academic Firm and the Entrepreneurial University in Epistemic Governance
Buch | Hardcover
90 Seiten
2025
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-041-28191-7 (ISBN)
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The book highlights how self-different fractals enhance interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, blending scientific and artistic research approaches to create productive chaos, shaping governance, academia, and innovation systems to advance societal and institutional development in higher education.
The presented ideas create and shape the vision of a “Manifesto of Higher Education Governance”.

Fractals are typically understood as self-similar structures, but this concept is expanded to include “self-different fractals”. These fractals align with a “Philosophy of Dialectics”, where opposing forces (thesis and antithesis) can either create disruption or, when managed effectively, drive creativity, innovation, and development. Because self-different fractal systems operate in multiple modes, they hold greater potential for fostering innovation.

This conceptual exploration investigates innovation in higher education through dialectical approaches, presenting the entrepreneurial university as a thesis, the academic firm as an antithesis, and epistemic governance as a synthesis. Epistemic governance plays a key role in motivating innovation by integrating pluralistic knowledge and innovation modes.

The concept of “self-different fractal innovation systems”—structures that embody multiple, interacting modalities—enhances innovation potential through their fluid complexity. Good and effective governance of these systems encourages continual knowledge evolution, enabling the development of “next-knowledge”. This process, guided by the dialectics of innovation, forms new, integrated structures and networks.

The book emphasizes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, with the latter involving collaboration between scholars and user communities for real-world impact. It bridges science and art, suggesting that visual representations of self-different fractals inspire artistic research alongside scientific inquiry. Through examining both linear and non-linear systems, the authors reveal how conflicting principles can generate productive chaos, ultimately driving innovation, societal progress and knowledge democracy.

The future of governance is also the future of higher education.

David F.J. Campbell is a Higher Education Researcher at the University for Continuing Education Krems in Austria; Associate Professor for Comparative Political Science at the University of Vienna; and a Quality Enhancement Expert, Quality Researcher and Publication Strategist at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Elias G. Carayannis is a Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as the co-founder and co-director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and the director of the European Union Research Center (EURC) at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Carayannis and Campbell jointly developed the theory of Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Innovation Systems.

Preface. Introduction: Self-Different Fractals and Innovation. Governance of and in Higher Education. The “Knowledge State”: Governance of Higher Education in the Knowledge Society, Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Democracy. Governance of Higher Education, “Epistemic Governance” and the Governance of Quality Enhancement in Higher Education Institutions. Innovation: Linear and Non-Linear Models of Innovation and Innovation Networks of Entrepreneurial Universities and Academic Firms. New Academic Careers. The Academic Firm and Innovation. The Conclusion: Innovation and Self-Different Fractals. References. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Ökonometrie
ISBN-10 1-041-28191-9 / 1041281919
ISBN-13 978-1-041-28191-7 / 9781041281917
Zustand Neuware
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