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. …

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 …

"This book illustrates new approaches to service innovation and new methodologies from the knowledge science and system …New trends in service science and education for service innovation / Michitaka Kosaka, Kunio Shirahada -- A concept of … -- Modeling of service value creation based on multidisciplinary framework / Kotaro Nakamura -- The dynamics of knowledge co …

-system innovation management: concepts and applications / Oliver Yu -- Knowledge and quality innovation in the health sector: the role …-linguistic programming in nonprofit organizations: facilitating knowledge and learning capabilities for innovation / Eric Kong, Mark Farrell …-Martínez, Ignacio Fernández-De-Lucio -- The role of knowledge sharing on organisational innovation: an integrated framework / Kijpokin …

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 …