Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income---the growing weightless economy …---influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ``distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a …

This paper examines how international flows of technological knowledge affect economic performance across industries …

knowledge of each business traveler matters by estimating a higher impact for travelers that originate in U.S. states with …

mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce …. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management and the knowledge and span of control of each agent. As a result, in the …

surplus from his production. At any time, the novice can leave the relationship with his acquired knowledge and produce on his … structured as an apprenticeship, in which all production generated during training is used to compensate the expert. Knowledge … transfer takes a simple form. In the first period, the expert gifts the novice a positive level of knowledge, which is …

knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

proportion of knowledge workers in employment, depending on the response of the overall demand for knowledge to the implied … reduction in the cost of acquiring it. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of … knowledge input in the production of human capital. An improvement in IT is modelled as an increase in the number of people who …

consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their …

of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …