Factors of transformation of the organizational forms of science in the knowledge-based society

The paper analyzes conversion factors of organizational forms both in education and research under conditions of developing knowledge-based society. Features of the knowledge-based society as a service-based society were investigated. The author regards the transformation process of knowledge status in the information society, socio-cultural implications of knowledge and information powers, changing nature of power relations. The author proposed the definition of cyberscience as a fundamentally new form of science organization, considered stages of modern science development in the context of information and communication technologies, analyzed the informatization model of scientific process. It is concluded that the developing infrastructure of cyberscience would provide epistemic infrastructure of the 21st century with its capabilities, and the mentioned above situation would raise a number of purely philosophical issues, such as the problem of knowledge status and the problem of true network knowledge.