To introduce new products and processes, firms often acquire knowledge from other organizations. Drawing on social … “knowledge characteristics” of the geographical area in which the firm is located. Combining data on social capital at the level …

External knowledge acquisition represents a precondition for firms’ competitive advantage. However, young firms find it … particularly difficult to gain access to external sources of knowledge: young firms suffer from a liability of newness by …

rise of the Knowledge Economy, social capital is becoming valuable because it organizes markets, lowering business firms …

Technological knowledge is often claimed to be context-bound and sticking to local surroundings. This paper … investigates how technological knowledge can be exchanged in international subcontractor relationships, using relationship …

information technology should not be regarded as a potential substitute for human skills and tacit knowledge. Instead, its main … role should be to support the formation and use of tacit knowledge. In the paper we compare two stylised models of the … tacit knowledge, while the American model is driven by a permanent urge to reduce the importance of tacit knowledge and to …

distinctive knowledge base means that adopting another nation's methods will depend on local learning involving trial and error …

intense knowledge exchange, network building and idea generation can thus be seen as temporary clusters. The present paper … claimed, lies in the restrictions imposed upon economic activity when knowledge and ideas are transformed into valuable … products and services. The paper sheds new light on how interaction among firms in current clusters coincides with knowledge …

paradigmatic approaches. We will argue that the role of technological policies and their design are contingent on whether knowledge …, we will define two broad kinds of cooperative policy : one (pre-paradigmatic) devoted to create radically new knowledge … new knowledge by using exploitation mechanisms in order to maintain technological options and variety, inducing innovation …

corporate capacity to strike a favorable balance between the production and the exploitation of new knowledge. This argument is …