Intellectual entrepreneurs and the diffusion of ideas : Two historical cases of knowledge flow

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Qi, Xiaoying. (2013). Intellectual entrepreneurs and the diffusion of ideas : Two historical cases of knowledge flow. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 1(3), pp. 346-372. https://doi.org/10.1057/ajcs.2013.5

Authors	Qi, Xiaoying
Abstract	This article argues that the diffusion of concepts and theories from one culture or society to another requires the active engagement of a category of agents which I identify as ‘intellectual entrepreneurs’. Two historically contrasting cases of the transmission of ideas are examined in order to explain the processes whereby alien concepts are diffused across cultures. Foreign ideas and concepts that are successfully assimilated into a culture are neither automatically accepted nor externally imposed. Rather, knowledge flow succeeds on the basis of selection and transformation by local intellectual entrepreneurs who at the same time transform the receiving context to accommodate the modified foreign ideas. The activities of individuals, as intellectual entrepreneurs, are identified and discussed in order to indicate the processes through which alien concepts and theories are diffused into a receiving culture.
Keywords	intellectual entrepreneur; diffusion; Schumpeter; Buddhism; China
Year	2013
Journal	American Journal of Cultural Sociology
Journal citation	1 (3), pp. 346-372
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN	2049-7113
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1057/ajcs.2013.5
Scopus EID	2-s2.0-84962206372
Open access	Published as green open access
Research or scholarly	Research
Page range	346-372
Research Group	School of Arts
Author's accepted manuscript	AM_Qi_2013_Intellectual_entrepreneurs_and_the_diffusion_of.pdf File Access Level Open
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Additional information	This record includes a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in American Journal of Cultural Sociology. The final authenticated version is available online at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ajcs.2013.5] http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ajcs.2013.5
Place of publication	United Kingdom

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