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 …

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 …

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

effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … available within a region and its combination with a proxy of the amount of knowledge foster regional effects of cooperative …

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms … developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm … portfolio and knowledge related to R&D projects, which represent drug development at the clinical testing stage. The latter is …