Progress in our understanding of the role of knowledge in the economy, based on Nelson and Winter's book published in …

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

innovation at the sectoral level. Despite considerable interest in David and Foray's (1995) work on the codification of knowledge …This paper explores ongoing debates about the role that codified forms of knowledge play in fostering firms' and … and the changing nature of innovation due to the use of information and communication technologies, there are relatively …

. This paper investigates a dual facet of the exploratory component of R&D activities with regards to innovation failures …: while exploration increases firms’ exposure to failure, it also provides learning opportunities to curve down innovation … failures. This paper contributes to organizational learning and innovation management research by proposing that firms …

The objective of data mining is the extraction of knowledge from databases. In practice, one often encounters … difficulties with models that are constructed purely by search, without incorporation of knowledge about the domain of application …

The assessment of knowledge derived from databases depends on many factors. Decision makers often need to convince … others about the correctness and effectiveness of knowledge induced from data.The current data mining techniques do not … contribute much to this process of persuasion.Part of this limitation can be removed by integrating knowledge from experts in the …

of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and knowledge transfer costs.We test our predictions with a …

I examine the relationship between the characteristics of firm knowledge in terms of capital, diversity and relatedness …, and productivity. Panel data regression models suggest that unlike knowledge diversity, knowledge capital and knowledge … knowledge are more productive than those based on unrelated knowledge because the cost of co-ordinating productive activities …