The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview

NOTES

1 Introduction

1 For instance, ‘information economy’, ‘knowledge-based economy’, ‘knowledge-based bio-economy’ (highlighting the particular emphasis on the life sciences characteristic of the discourse) and simply ‘new economy’. These are themselves related to various terms denoting the break with the past that they represent, such as ‘post-Fordist’ or ‘postindustrial’ (Jessop 2005, Godin 2006).

2 See also subsequent chapters for more detailed discussion.

3 Among the now so-called ‘BRICs’ countries, the other two, China and Russia, were not involved in the WTO negotiations at that stage, hence their absence as further opposition to TRIPs.

4 As regards the social sciences, these changes thus augur the continual shrinking of spaces for intellectual ...