Sum, Ngai-Ling and Jessop, Bob (2013) Competitiveness, the Knowledge-Based Economy and Higher Education. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 4 (1). pp. 24-44.
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This article explores the appeal of the economic narratives of globalisation, competitiveness, and the knowledge-based economy and the impact of the economic and extra-economic tendencies that they both construe and help to construct with special reference to higher education. The argument develops in five steps: First, it analyses the socially constructed nature of competitiveness, exemplifying this from the influential account of Michael Porter and his Harvard Business School associates; second, it shows how the ‘knowledge-based economy’ (or KBE) concept developed as a scientific paradigm and policy paradigm in the context of the crisis of Fordism and how it has influenced public discourse on educational reform; third, it reviews how Porterian propositions on competitiveness have been translated into a ‘knowledge brand’ that is promoted by academic–guru–consultants and relayed through research centres, policy networks, and advisory services; fourth, it explores how the KBE is being re-contextualised in part in terms of ‘knowledge and higher education clusters’, ‘knowledge hubs’, etc., and their role in competitiveness; and fifth, it notes some implications of these economic imaginaries, governmental technologies, and emergent modes of growth for higher education.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Knowledge Economy |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | knowledge-based economy ; Universities ; Cluster Policies ; Triple Heliz ; Competitiveness ; Economic Imaginary ; Cultural Political Economy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Sociology Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Politics & International Relations (Merged into PPR 2010-08-01) |
| ID Code: | 58895 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 05 Oct 2012 09:54 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 09:05 |
| Identification Number: | |
| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/58895 |
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