effect of interaction of local knowledge institutions and small and medium producers to generate autonomous technical … knowledge in African industry. First, we examined modes of learning proxied by training in small and medium firms. We found that … elementary learning mechanisms such as apprenticeship, resulting in the creation of tacit knowledge, are the dominant forms of …

This paper is based on key-concepts of austrian economics (expectations, knowledge, institutions), and brings a … complementary view in the theory of territory. Particularly, it will show that territories, through individual actions which are …

This paper deals with institutional conditions in regional innovation systems; how institutions affect the organization …

coordinates that define the development of knowledge, higher education and excellence of these efforts. [DB]. URL …

. A key feature of this approach is the concept of complementary institutions, allowing a limited number of viable and … knowledge intensive regions, but also show that national institutional settings remain of fundamental importance in shaping a …

underpins the formal rational modelling of modern economic theory. Following John Searle, it is argued that the deliberations …' capacities and dispositions. It is shown why the formal version of rational choice theory employed in economics does not have the … resources to address such capacities and dispositions, and that the prevailing commitment to this theory thereby reinforces …