efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most … capital as propensity towards civicness and prosocial behaviour that facilitates the circulation of nonredundant knowledge … innovative performance after controlling for ‘traditional’ knowledge inputs (R&D and human capital). In addition, instrumental …

industry-level data. R&D affects both innovation and the assimilation of others’ discoveries (‘absorptive capacity’). Long …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into … knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …

of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …

coordinating transactions wherever knowledge is dispersed and innovation renders the future uncertain—remains a potent explanation …This paper re-examines Hayek’s insights into the problem of knowledge in markets, and argues that his analysis remains … and tacit knowledge has important but widely ignored implications for the contemporary use of statistics in financial risk …