Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actorshave different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) inIndonesia have established themselves in pivotal positions in the social, economic and...

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research andinnovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in anemerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affectinventive activities developed abroad. We look at...

Globalisation is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the formof economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so forth.On the other hand, there are vast amounts of casualties from its progress, which only benefits...

We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its dominance to a subset of rivals. Allowing the non-license takers to remain active...

In this essay I compare two different theoretical frameworks in economics for orientinganalysis of issues in technology policy. One is a neoclassical framework that sees appropriatepolicies as dealing with “market failures”. The other framework is provided by an evolutionaryand institutional...

There is no doubt that innovation is nowadays the main determinant ofeconomic growth and that the human resource is as a crucial factor of the process ofinnovation.As the role played by this factor the mainstream viewpoint emphasizes labourmarket rigidities in the explanation of cross-countries...

Despite the considerable attention paid to research into the adoption of technological innovations in government agencies and business firms, little attention has been paid to other types of organisations such as voluntary organisations (VOs). As a result, many things remain unknown: the...

This paper argues for a radical new understanding of the topic generally referred to as Tacit Knowledge. On the basis of a new appraisal of the work of Michael Polanyi, we argue that mapping, assessing, fostering, developing, and improving the tacit component in all use of skill and knowledge is...

Recent studies of sectoral specialisation and technological development across market economies have shown how contrasting patterns of technical change can be explained by the different institutional frameworks that have become established in distinct types of economy (see, e.g., Casper, 2000;...

The bidder who wins at an auction may end up paying more for an asset than it is actually worth. This, stated very simply, is the so-called winner's curse. Consider the simplest possible case where the asset has the same actual value to all bidders, but bidders do not know for certain what that...