Configurational information as potentially negative entropy: The triple helix model

Entropy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 391-410

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Configuration; Emergence; Information theory; Probabilistic entropy; Scientometrics; Transmission; Triple helix; University industry government relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149133766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e10040391     Document Type: Article

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