13. Aug. 2009

On 17 August 2009 the Summer School on “The Role of Social Science in the Construction of Knowledge-based societies: Latin American and European Perspectives” starts. It lasts 2 weeks and has been organised under the FP7 project "EULAKS" by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI, Austria) and the other partners of the consortium.

The main topics of the Summer School are:

• The processes and dynamics of knowledge generation and diffusion (both at the national and international level) that underpin the co-evolution of science, technology and society: How can they help us to understand and explain the significance and effects of new paradigms in industrial production, and institutional and relational structures of societies?

• The design of public policies oriented towards innovation and social development: How can shared strategies (public and private) be developed to transform the institutional structures, thus generating new authorities and functions that change the governance relations in society and specifically between the actors in the field of science, technology and innovation.

• New combinations of interactions that emerge in the development of innovative capacities: How can we understand the processes of creation and application of new knowledge in a complex system of interaction between a diversity of institutions and actors that assume distinctive roles in the process of innovation and technological development.

• The new paradigms like ICT, biotechnology and nanotechnology that introduce changes in the productive and institutional structures: How can we measure their impact on the restructuring of the knowledge base and the knowledge absorption capacity of industrial sectors?

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