Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning (second, Corrected Draft)

Synthetic Symbolic Exploration Mathematical e.g. Gene Experimental Reasoning Therapy Art Work Examination Theorems to Clinical Art Test Trials Exhibition Exploitation e.g. Penrose Therapeutic Gallery Tiles/Patterns Treatment Sale Fig. 1: Forms and Stages of Knowledge Production What Fig. 1 shows is that all innovative knowledge of utility, by definition meaning new knowledge commercialised, must pass iteratively through similar stages of production from ‘discovery’ through invention or realisation of the hitherto unrealised experimental form, to a testing process that establishes its reliability and validity, to a state where it has created demand, either market or social. The key thing to note here is that discovery involves not so much ‘learning’ as ‘unlearning’ by stepping beyond what can be learned as codified