Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of …

Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour gives rise to a new and richer institutional analysis of the … economy centred around the analysis of language, the division of labour and social knowledge. It is in this perspective that … of labour, starting from methodological problems on the communication of scientific knowledge. The volume goes on to …

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 …

The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge aims to reach a unique understanding of science with the help of economic and …

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

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 …