This paper discusses, first, the properties of scientific and technological knowledge and the institutions supporting …

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 …

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 …

levels of analysis of technologies, namely as (i) bodies of problem-solving knowledge, (ii) organizational procedures, and … those which concern knowledge and organizational procedures while in most respects the I/O representation is just an ex post …, derived, one. Next, we outline what we consider to be important advances in the understanding of productive knowledge and of …

This paper adopts sociometric analysis to explore the process of knowledge acquisition and diffusion in clusters of … firms. By comparing the knowledge systems of two clusters selected for being at different stages of their development path …, this study shows that the knowledge system of the laggard cluster is weak, highly disconnected and vulnerable, while in the …