Specialized knowledge-generating jobs comprise close to one fifth of employment and one fourth of the wage bill in … and shares of management workers, their higher shares in employment at the firm level are correlated with more innovation … profitability. This suggests that firms use specialized knowledge workers to generate within-firm knowledge and create firm …

economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy …This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers … the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge …

Why do societies benefit differently from knowledge? How exactly does social interaction interfere with knowledge … questions and others relating to the role and relevance of knowledge in economic analysis. By illuminating the philosophical … roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and …