are used to analyze the determinant factors related to improvements in innovation and productivity. Our results indicate … that increasing technology and knowledge through a “black box” process is related to an increase in productivity …. Furthermore, the protection and management of production knowledge and expertise is a valid method of increasing global technical …

knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian … SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of … magnitude of such impact being decreasing in firms’ size. Second, knowledge diffusion via geographical proximity enhances the …

The paper contributes to the interpretation of entrepreneurship based on the effect of knowledge and the cultural …. Knowledge creation does not affect entrepreneurship rates, as its impact on entrepreneurship is long-lasting (it could reach … more or less 10 years) and not a short-term one. Simultaneously, knowledge impact affects negatively the self …

which knowledge is endogenous to economic growth and technological change. However, in both production functions the … with common understanding by which knowledge can be deep and wide and evolving over and in time, meaning human capital is 3 … bunch knowledge together, i.e., human capital and technological knowledge are strictly inseparable. Analysis and intuition …

). Tabula rasa is the epistemological study that a human is born with no built-in mental content and that human knowledge comes …