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 economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical...

This ICB Research Report constitutes the proceedings of the first workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+ 2008), which was held on December 13, 2008 in Madrid, Spain. MONA+ has been collocated with the ServiceWave 2008 conference.