of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples … drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach …

The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However … relationship between performance and innovation at the level of design teams, projects, firms, networks, industries, and countries … the relationship between innovation and performance. It builds upon an extensive review of contributions in economics …

The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries evolution has witnessed major progress in several areas …. Contributions at the empirical, appreciative, econometric and modelling levels have greater advanced our understanding of innovation … are required for a better understanding of the relationship between innovation and the evolution of industries: the …

sectors industries. Firms' innovative persistence and the regional knowledge stock are also important. …

that firms' knowledge bases must "fit" in order for joint learning and innovation to be possible, and thus for an alliance … social capital considerations. In this paper we emphasize instead the role of complementary knowledge stocks (broadly defined …) in partner selection, arguing not only that knowledge complementarity should not be overlooked, but that is may be the …

We model knowledge diffusion in a population of agents situated on a network, interacting only over direct ties. Some … (proportion of traders), the network structure (clustering, path length and degree distribution), and the scarcity of knowledge … connected agents do well when knowledge is scarce, agents in clustered neighbourhoods do well when it is abundant. The latter …

labour market. The challenge today appears more or less similar, but this time with respect to knowledge. Interestingly, it … social welfare models that have performed best in terms of knowledge investments. This suggests, that success in boosting … knowledge investment generates the public resources for the development of social welfare models capable of addressing rapid …