Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and … economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm … capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the extent of knowledge diffusion is an important determinant of economic …

Knowledge Policy illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that … competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge … into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge unimportant? The contributors attempt to answer …

emphasis on knowledge-based services. This metamorphosis has not been easy. As well as major changes in the industrial sector … book. Although Taiwan is only in the initial stage of transition from a material- or capital-based economy to a knowledge … go on to reveal the problems and difficulties that Taiwan has encountered in creating itself a new knowledge based …

relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the context of capital accumulation and distribution. Michèle Javary presents a …