economies /Nigel F.B. Allington and John S.L. McCombie --Knowledge externalities and growth in peripheral regions /Fabiana … Santos, Marco Crocco, and Frederico Jayme, Jr. --Knowledge, human capital and foreign direct investment in developing …

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 …

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

-skilled and low-skilled workers in the knowledge economy will be welcomed by economists and policymakers interested in the complex …

-- pt. IV. Business exits -- pt. V. Knowledge-based entrepreneurship -- pt. VI. Entrepreneurship and social inclusion …

1. The objective : to stimulate a knowledge-based debate about innovation policy -- 2. Innovation -- 3. The innovation … learning economy -- 8. The learning organization -- 9. Knowledge intensity and knowledge flows in the Danish innovation system … -- 10. Inter-firm collaboration -- 11. Collaboration between firms and knowledge institutions -- 12. Qualification …