of Practice” (CoP) for understanding the dynamics of knowledge creation and sharing in Industrial Districts (IDs). The … repository” of knowledge. The source of the concept of agglomeration of firms in ID is completely different. Anyway, many …, it explains the three main concepts useful for understanding further argumentations: knowledge, ID, CoP. Next, it offers …

GERMAN ABSTRACT: Wissensmanagement und Controlling werden seit Jahrzehnten parallel in der betriebswirt … Vergütungssystemen und Kennzahlensystemen in diesem Schnittstellenbereich vorgenommen. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Knowledge management and …-nomic thought. It shows that knowledge management and management control, in fact, overlap in their analy-sis of explicit …

The Innovation systems (IS) approach and the system failures it identifies, play an important role in the design and … legitimization of innovation policy. This paper analyses the usefulness of this concept. We conclude that the IS-approach can be … useful to visualize the complexity of the innovation processes. However, for policy design this approach is less suited …

paradigm of Information Technology provides useful insights into the ‘learning opportunities’ that opened the way to endogenous … product line. The central idea of this paper is that innovation never occurs without simultaneous structural change. Thus, a … technological dimension reflecting the extent to which the diffusion of innovation (re)generates variety of micro level processes …

Innovation Systems constitute an analysis framework, which allows comprehending the socio-economic structure of a …… their main competences, and the interactions into Innovation Networks among them. Thus, authorities (regional, national …, local…) are endowed of a tool that allows the creation and development of competitive and efficient Innovation Systems. In …

Innovation Systems constitute an analysis framework, which allows comprehending the socio-economic structure of a … and a set of indicators which help to increase the knowledge about these interactions, and their impact on the innovative …

rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …

this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …