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 and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy …

historical investigations of knowledge networks and empirical analysis of contemporary networks, to the analysis of the diffusion … of innovations using simulation and analytic models and of the diffusion of knowledge using patent data …pt. 1. General introduction -- pt. 2. Path dependence in technical change -- pt. 3. The economics of knowledge -- pt. 4 …

pt. 1. Core linkages in the genesis of innovation: the knowledge dimension -- pt. 2. Military-based innovation networks … -- pt. 3. From knowledge to market: systemic links at the local level …

pt. I. How to capitalize knowledge -- pt. II. Triple helix in the knowledge economy …