This paper discusses, first, the properties of scientific and technological knowledge and the institutions supporting …

order to promote learning, innovation, productivity and economic performance at the local level? Such questions are high on …

levels of analysis of technologies, namely as (i) bodies of problem-solving knowledge, (ii) organizational procedures, and … those which concern knowledge and organizational procedures while in most respects the I/O representation is just an ex post …, derived, one. Next, we outline what we consider to be important advances in the understanding of productive knowledge and of …

increasingly aware of the need and opportunities to improve the contribution of social science knowledge to policy making and are … be a source of inspiration on new approaches to sharing knowledge? And how can the divide between the two communities … makers at the Workshop on the Contribution of Social Sciences to Knowledge and Decision Making, Bruges, 26-28 June 2000. …