IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION CASE STUDY OF A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION CASE STUDY OF A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (COVID-19), declared by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 as a pandemic, does not represent only a health crisis but a crisis that affects the daily lives of humans around the world, all economic sectors and knowledge production. Our article seeks to demonstrate the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on the production of knowledge, in the case of a knowledge society. The methodology adopted in our study is form first on the choice of the knowledge society based on the ranking of the Global Knowledge Index (GKI) relating to the year 2019, then the analysis of the variable inputs of the production of the knowledge: the production of knowledge workers, research and development expenditure, and knowledge institutions. Preliminary results show the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on them. The originality of this article lies in the study of the situation of knowledge production, little covered in recent studies, in this case in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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