NACI lunch-time seminar: Changing Contexts of Knowledge Production by Prof Andrew Jamison

NACI recently hosted a lunch seminar which was addressed by Andrew Jamison, Professor of Technology and Society at Aalborg University in Denmark His topic was Changing Contexts of Knowledge Production and was based on an analytical framework published in a recent book,Hubris and Hybrids – A Cultural History of Technology and Science authored by him and Mikael HÃ¥rd. The seminar was attended by NACI, DST and ASSAf staff.

The central themes of the presentation were the changing contexts of science and technology, and the broader cultural, economic, and environmental aspects of knowledge production.

He argued that knowledge production has increasingly become an integral part of our contemporary way of life, and, not least, central to economic development. Knowledge produced today is fundamentally different from that produced between the 17th and 19th centuries. During the past century, knowledge production has produced a variety of “hybrid” forms of knowledge with important implications for science, technology and innovation policy.