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Spatio-temporal processes of knowledge creation

Johanna Hautala and Jussi S. Jauhiainen

Research Policy, 2014, vol. 43, issue 4, 655-668

Abstract: This article presents a novel spatio-temporal framework for studying knowledge creation. To achieve this, we analyzed the recent literature on space, time and knowledge and conducted an empirical study. The intensive case was about four international distinguished university research groups in Finland in the fields of technology and science. Object, communicative and cognitive spaces with linear and relational times were used as tools for empirical analysis. Combinations of space and time bring out different aspects of knowledge. Knowledge processes of progressing knowledge (time-space), creating distinguished knowledge (space-time), and path-taking and bundling knowledge (spacetime) bind spaces and times closely together. Besides academy, the spatio-temporal framework can be applied to study the knowledge creation processes in art, business and local communities, for example.

Keywords: Knowledge; Process; Space; Time; University; Finland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.01.002

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