Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The network is the pervasive organizational image of the new millennium. This book examines one particular kind of network - the 'knowledge network' - whose primary mandate is to create and disseminate knowledge based on multidisciplinary research that is informed by problem-solving as well as theoretical agendas. In their examination of five knowledge networks based in Canadian universities, and in most cases working closely with researchers in developing countries, the authors demonstrate the ability of networks to cross disciplinary boundaries, to blend the operational with the theoretical, and to respond to broad social processes. Operating through networks, rather than through formal, hierarchical structures, diverse communities of researchers create different kinds of knowledge and disseminate their results effectively across disciplinary, sectoral, and spatial boundaries. Analysis of networks in health, environment, urban, and educational fields suggests that old categories of 'north' and 'south' are becoming blurred, and that the new structures of knowledge creation and dissemination help to sustain collaborative research.

Information networks --- Automated information networks --- Networks, Information --- Information services --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Economic development --- Community development --- Communication in economic development --- Communication in community development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Regional development --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Research --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Kanada. --- Kanada --- Ontario --- Nova Scotia --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey --- York --- Canada --- Puissance du Canada --- Kanadier --- Provinz Kanada --- 01.07.1867 --- -Communication in community development