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 …

. 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. …

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 …

This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms …. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation … corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above …