productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of … external credit. We also offer an initial understanding about how profitability and productivity relate with a third dimension …

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …

less. Laggard firms, we suggest, should instead achieve productivity growth through efficient exploitation of existing …

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

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 …

This paper adopts sociometric analysis to explore the process of knowledge acquisition and diffusion in clusters of … firms. By comparing the knowledge systems of two clusters selected for being at different stages of their development path …, this study shows that the knowledge system of the laggard cluster is weak, highly disconnected and vulnerable, while in the …

knowledge involves an overly sharp distinction between technically possible and technically impossible a distinction which has … no counterpart in the realities of organizational knowledge. The main elements of a Schumpeterian view are described and …