ABSTRACT
Scientific and technological knowledge is going to become the key factor in the change of economies and in the evolution of society. There are two features of the actual mode of knowledge production: On the one side, the knowledge production has turned into a business. On the other side, limitations of the governance of knowledge become visible. As the production of knowledge is dispersed over many places, as it is split into the use of explicit and non-explicit knowledge, and as it is divided between different institutional actors and mechanisms of coordination are demanded beyond market and hierarchy. A new regime of governance is established that consists of a selected set of institutions and that is characterized by the dominance of particular means of coordination. The rise of a new regime only indicates that one type of differentiation achieves the leading role in shaping society whereas the others only loose their centrality, but gain new importance for particular social units.
