This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition is a wide notion, including value judgments and corresponding feelings and emotions.This paper focuses on the relation between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the...

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the perspective of 'embodied cognition'. That view has roots in earlier developmental psychology, and in sociology, and more recently has received further substance from neural...

This article examines general issues in the formation of national innovation systems amidst social-economic transformations. The author generalizes and structurizes the major elements of the national innovation system, systematizes its functions, classifies critical factors in its evolutionary...