: innovations, knowledge transfer, industrial dynamics, structural change, international competitiveness, evolutionary game theory …

Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour gives rise to a new and richer institutional analysis of the … economy centred around the analysis of language, the division of labour and social knowledge. It is in this perspective that … of labour, starting from methodological problems on the communication of scientific knowledge. The volume goes on to …

The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge aims to reach a unique understanding of science with the help of economic and …

We study the relationships between corporate R&D and three components of public science: knowledge, human capital, and … established firms, which account for more than three-quarters of business R&D, is affected by scientific knowledge produced by … commercialize university inventions. Moreover, abstract knowledge advances per se elicit little or no response. Our findings …

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …

Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of …

in the field such as profound uncertainty and the significance of knowledge in economics. This coherent and focused book …