Advancing knowledge and the knowledge economy

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Prospects for Knowledge Policy -- 2 - Optimizing the Use of Knowledge -- 3 - OECD Work on Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy -- 4 - Measuring Knowledge and Its Economic Effects: The Role of Official Statistics -- 5 - Assessing Innovation Capacity: Fitting Strategy, Indicators, and Policy to the Right Framework -- 6 - Interactive Learning, Social Capital, and Economic Performance -- 7 - Social Capital, Networks, and Communities of Knowledge -- 8 - Knowing Communities in Organizations -- 9 - Epistemic Infrastructure in the Rise of the Knowledge Economy -- 10 - Universities and the Knowledge Economy -- 11 - The Impact of ICT on Tertiary Education: Advances and Promises -- 12 - The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and University-Industry Technology Transfer: A Policy Model for Other Governments? -- 13 - The Changing Dynamics of the Global Market for the Highly Skilled -- 14 - Knowledge in Space: What Hope for the Poor Parts of the Globe? -- 15 - Democratizing Innovation: The Evolving Phenomenon of User Innovation -- 16 - Innovation, Experimentation, and Technological Change -- 17 - Knowledge, Platforms, and the Division of Labor -- 18 - Between ''Knowledge'' and ''The Economy'': Notes on the Scientific Study of Designs -- 19 - Patent Quantity and Quality: Trends and Policy Implications -- 20 - Blurred Boundaries: Tensions Between Open Scientific Resources and Commercial Exploitation of Knowledge in Biomedical Research -- 21 - The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond -- 22 - ''Open and Collaborative'' Biomedical Research: Theory and Evidence -- 23 - Critical Tensions in the Evolution of Open Source Software -- 24 - Toward a Cyberinfrastructure for Enhanced Scientific Collaboration: Providing Its ''Soft'' Foundations May Be the Hardest Part.