History 180c    

Cultural History of 20 Century Science and Technology:  the Triple Helix

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/08S/hist180c-1/

 

Sharon Traweek  http://www.history.ucla.edu/traweek       traweek@history.ucla.edu

Lectures will be held Tuesdays/Thursdays 2-3:15pm in Bunche 3156

Office Hours:  Tuesdays/Thursdays 3:30-5pm at 5286 Bunche

 

Cultural History of the "Triple Helix" [universities/industry/government]

in 20C Science, Technology, and Medicine

 

We will explore the intersection of universities, industry, and government as a site for making knowledge that emerged worldwide during the twentieth century.  Cases include aerospace, pharmaceuticals, secret codes, marketing, weapons, area studies, testing, computing, graphics technologies.  These practices have powerfully reshaped universities such as UCLA.  We will examine how these sites changed during the twentieth century.  Science students are welcome, as are students in all other fields; inter-disciplinarity will strengthen the class.  Graduate students are also welcome.

 

Tues/Thur 1/3 April                     "Triple Helix" as a site for making knowledge     

Tues/Thur 8/10 April       20c Universities and knowledge making

                        10 April Guest Lecturer:  Dr. Helena Pettersson,

                        Dept of Culture & Media, Umea University, Sweden

                        http://www.umu.se/kultmed/personal/pettersson/helena.html

Tues/Thur  15/17 April    Governments, Industries, think tanks, and knowledge making

Tues/Thur 22/24 April     Where are the people in knowledge making?

Tues/Thur 29 Ap/1May   case studies:  weapons, aerospace, and space

Tues/Thur 6/8 May                     case studies:  area/transnational studies

Tues/Thur 13/15 May      case studies:  "big sciences"

Tues/Thur 20/22 May      case studies:  computing technosciences

Tues/Thur  27/29 May     case studies:  pharmaceuticals and biomed technosciences

Tues/Thur  3/5 June                   case studies:  environmental technosciences; closing themes

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE:

1.  Attendance at ALL classes.

Extensive information about assignments will ONLY be given in class.

2.  A minimum of 100 pages of reading from research journals per week

3   Total of twenty-five pages of analytic writing

4.  There are no examinations.

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See course webpage for links about

1.  Analytic reading and writing

2.  What is a research journal?

 

 

Writing Assignments:

Extensive information about writing assignments will be given in class

[not on the website, not on email, and not in office hours]

Six-page analytic reviews of your reading are due at the beginning of class

Thursday 17 April

Thursday 8 May

Thursday 29 May

Seven-page triple-helix/mode 2 analysis of a case study topic

            Thursday 12 June

 

"Mode 2" and the "Triple Helix" Hypotheses

These webpages below include extensive information on the "Mode 2" and the "Triple Helix" hypotheses; both describe/explain new ways of making knowledge at the intersection of

universities-industry-government.

Helga Nowotny and Michael Gibbons developed the Mode Two approach;

Loet Leydesdorf and Henry Etzkowitz developed the Triple Helix ideas.

The fullest pages are those of Loet Leydesdorff and Helga Nowotny.

 

Loet Leydesdorff

Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)

Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://www.leydesdorff.net

            http://www.chem.uva.nl/sts/loet/index.htm

            http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/th-l.html

            http://www.leydesdorff.net/th

Henry Etzkowitz

Science Policy, State University of New York at Purchase

http://www.mindspring.com/~cwjordan/etzkowitz.html

Helga Nowotny

Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [ETH Zentrum], Zurich

http://www.nowotny.ethz.ch/

At this page above you can access some of her recent articles, such as

"Democratising expertise and socially robust knowledge," _Science and Public

Policy_, vol. 30, no. 3, June 2003, Surrey, 151-156.

            http://www.nowotny.ethz.ch

"Re-Thinking Science: Mode 2 in Societal Context," (with Peter Scott and

Michael Gibbons). (2004, forthcoming) In: Technology, Innovation and

Knowledge. Management Book Series, Vol. 2.: Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and

Use in Innovation Networks & Clusters: A Comparative Systems Approach Across

the U.S., Europe and Asia. Greenwood Publishing Group Praeger Books, USA.

At the webpage below see a description of Nowotny's work by Rob Hagendijk,

International School for Humanities & Social Sciences, Amsterdam, when Helga

was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies

of Science [4S]

        http://www.nowotny.ethz.ch/aktivitaeten_en.html

Michael Gibbons

Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/175/biogs/gibbons.html

http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,2340,en_21571361_23918823_33622302_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

 

 

Reading Assignments

 

Week of 1/3 April:   Triple Helix & Mode Two Hypotheses

 

1.   Henry Etzkowitz & Loet Leydesdorff, “The Endless Transition: A ‘Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations,’ in a special issue of Minerva [Vol. 36 (1998), pp. 203-288] 75pages         Access at http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/th2/index.htm

 

2.  Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott; Michael Gibbons, “Introduction: `Mode 2' Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge,” Minerva {Vol. 41, No. 3 (September, 2003), pp. 179-194], 13 p.

Access Mode2.pdf at course website

 

3.  Marc Audétat, “Re-Thinking Science, Re-Thinking Society:  Review of

Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

by Helga Nowotny; Peter Scott; Michael Gibbons,”

Social Studies of Science  [Vol. 31, No. 6 (Dec., 2001), pp. 950-956], 6 pages

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0306-3127%28200112%2931%3A6%3C950%3ARSRS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1

 

4. Shinn, Terry, “The Triple Helix and New Production of Knowledge: Prepackaged Thinking on Science and Technology,” Social Studies of Science [Vol. 32, no. 4 (Aug., 2002), pp. 599-614]

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0306-3127%28200208%2932%3A4%3C599%3ATTHANP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0

See Shinn.pdf at course webpage

 

 

Week of 8/10 April:  Universities In changing political economies

 

1.  Clark, Burton R.,

“Common problems and adaptive responses in the universities of the world: organizing for change,” Higher Education Policy  [Volume 10, number 3/4 (1997), pp. 291-295], 4 pages.

See Clark.pdf at course webpage

 

2.  Kaiser, David,

"The Postwar Suburbanization of American Physics," American Quarterly [Vol. 56, no. 4 (December 2004), pp. 851-888], 28 pages. 

See Kaiser.pdf at course webpage

 

3.  Kerr, Clark, “Transcript of Clark Kerr's remarks to the Joint Committee, August 24, 1999,” 11 pages.            http://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/kerr082499.htm  or see Kerr.doc at course webpage

 

4.  Shinn, Terry, “The Triple Helix and New Production of Knowledge: Prepackaged Thinking on Science and Technology,” Social Studies of Science [Vol. 32, no. 4 (Aug., 2002), pp. 599-614], 12 pages.

See Shinn.pdf at course webpage

 

UC system:

5.  A Master Plan for Higher Education in California:  1960-1975

pp. xiii-xiv, 59-81, 115-136.

[in pdf format:  pp. 13-14, 76-81, 132-153], 25 pages.

http://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/mp.htm

6.  The California Master Plan for Higher Education in Perspective, 1 page.

http://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/mastplan/mpperspective.htm

See also:  History of the California Master Plan for Higher Education

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/archives_exhibits/masterplan/post1960.html

 

 

To be added:

Week of 15/17 April:      Think Tanks/R&D/policy making

Week of 22/24 April:      Careers in the Triple Helix

Week of 29 Ap/1May:                Weapons, aerospace, and space

Week of 6/8 May                       Area/transnational studies

Week of 13/15 May                    "Big sciences"

Week of 20/22 May                    Computing technosciences

Week of 27/29 May                    Pharmaceuticals and biomed technosciences

Week of 3/5 June                      Environmental technosciences; closing themes