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

economies /Nigel F.B. Allington and John S.L. McCombie --Knowledge externalities and growth in peripheral regions /Fabiana … Santos, Marco Crocco, and Frederico Jayme, Jr. --Knowledge, human capital and foreign direct investment in developing …

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. University engagement, knowledge commercialization and regional economic development … -- pt. III. Knowledge and technology transfer dynamics and regional economic development. …The commercialization of academic knowledge is increasingly seen as a potential economic development model …

the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis …--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental … knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge …

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 …

Why do societies benefit differently from knowledge? How exactly does social interaction interfere with knowledge … questions and others relating to the role and relevance of knowledge in economic analysis. By illuminating the philosophical … roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and …

highlight the important role of knowledge in the production system and in doing so make an important contribution to a key …

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 …