Introduction:beyond crisis in the knowledge economy

Tyfield, David Peter and Lave, Rebecca and Randalls, Samuel and Thorpe, Charles (2017) Introduction:beyond crisis in the knowledge economy. In: The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138922983

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Abstract

Introducing the Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science, this chapter summarizes the crisis of the neoliberal knowledge economy across several dimensions, and points to new avenues of enquiry and engaged research, highlighting the work illustrated in the subsequent chapters. It concludes that the political economy of research and innovation is a key but neglected dimension of politics in the 21st century.