This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …

trial-and-error and learning by consuming. The key question that is addressed is: how do consumers deal with innovation? By … bringing together a number of threads within the innovation literature my claim is that consumers, akin to firms, follow …

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

This paper presents the stylized facts of open source software innovation and provides empirical evidence on the impact … formal model that captures the innovation impact of OSS entry by examining a change in market structure from monopoly to …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of … strengthening its role in knowledge spillovers to client industries. …

innovative activities. While the vital importance of innovation in today’s competitive climate has been widely proclaimed, our … contributes the understanding of innovation in service organisations by exploring past and present perceptions of banks' senior …

innovation. Our effort is trying to view the evolution of this artifact from memetics. By constructing a phylomemetic tree based … algorithm to construct cellphone phylomemetic tree. Therefore we compare with the innovation tree, which is based on serial … number and their appearance time. From phylomemetic tree, we then analyze the process of a cellular phone innovation through …

This paper aims at showing how the Research and innovation Act of July 1999 modifies (stimulates?) the role of the … of firms profit from these devices? Do the structures of support for innovation at the regional level deploy their … example the case of Auvergne, we will seek to show in what sense the organisational mode of the innovation which prevails …

knowledge in academia; there is no set organization with a hierarchy, but free collaboration that is coordinated spontaneously …