Misalignment Between Skills Discovered, Disseminated, and Deployed in the Knowledge Economy
作者机构：the Department of Computer and Communication SciencesÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL)Lausanne 1015Switzerland the Knowledge Labthe Department of SociologyUniversity of ChicagoChicagoIL 60615USAand also with the Santa Fe InstituteSanta FeNM 87501USA
出 版 物：《Journal of Social Computing》 (社会计算（英文）)
年 卷 期：2022年第3卷第3期
页 面：191-205页
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学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题：computational content analysis knowledge economy sociology of knowledge natural language processing data science and society
摘 要：The knowledge economy is a complex and dynamical system,where knowledge and skills are discovered through research,diffused via education,and deployed by *** aligning the supply of new knowledge with the demand for practical skills through education is critical for developing national innovation systems that maximize human *** this paper,we evaluate the complex alignment of skills across the knowledge economy by creating an integrated semantic model that neurally encodes invented,instructed,and instituted skills across three major datasets:research abstracts from the Web of Science,teaching syllabi from the Open Syllabus Project,and job advertisements from Burning *** the high dimensional knowledge and skills space inscribed by these data,we draw critical insight about systemic misalignment between the diversity of skills supplied and demanded in the knowledge *** with insights from economic geography,demand for skills from industry exhibits high entropy(diversity)at local,regional,and national levels,demonstrating dense complementarities between them at all levels of the *** with the economics and sociology of innovation,we find low entropy in the invention of new knowledge and skills through research,as specialist researchers cluster within *** provide new evidence,however,for the low entropy of skills taught at local,regional,and national levels,illustrating a massive mismatch between diversity in skills supplied versus *** misalignment is sustained by the spatial and institutional mismatch in the organization of education by researchers at the site of skill invention over *** findings suggestively trace the societal costs of tethering education to researchers with narrow knowledge rather than students with broad skill needs.
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