<http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/10/4/391> Configurational Information as Potentially Negative Entropy: The Triple Helix Model
Entropy 10(4) (2008), 391-420 Abstract: Configurational information is generated when three or more sources of variance interact. The variations not only disturb each other relationally, but by selecting upon each other, they are also positioned in a configuration. A configuration can be stabilized and/or globalized. Different stabilizations can be considered as second-order variation, and globalization as a second-order selection. The positive manifestations and the negative selections operate upon one another by adding and reducing uncertainty, respectively. Reduction of uncertainty in a configuration can be measured in bits of information. The variables can also be considered as dimensions of the probabilistic entropy in the system(s) under study. The configurational information then provides us with a measure of synergy within a complex system. For example, the knowledge base of an economy can be considered as such a synergy in the otherwise virtual (that is, fourth) dimension of a regime. Keywords: Information theory; probabilistic entropy; anticipation; triple helix; transmission; configuration; university-industry-government relations; scientometrics; emergence < <http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/10/4/391/pdf> pdf-version> _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; <http://www.leydesdorff.net/> http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor 2007-2010, <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html> ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow 2007-2010, <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/> SPRU, University of Sussex Now available: <http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581129378> The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated, 385 pp.; US$ 18.95; <http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956> The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society ; <http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126816> The Challenge of Scientometrics
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