domesticated crops and useful wild plants are shaped by indigenous knowledge and by their uses within indigenous cultures. This …, social structure, and knowledge systems of indigenous societies. In order to support conservation through indigenous …

We investigate the contribution of different inputs, particularly different knowledge sources, on regional patenting … output in the framework of a knowledge production function. The knowledge sources included are R&D employment, size of public … departments, German Science Foundation (DFG), and from other sources. The contribution of these knowledge sources is tested …

Die Gründung eines innovativen Unternehmens stellt eine Form der kommerziellen Verwer-tung von Wissen dar. Der Beitrag …Setting up an innovative new firm is a way of commercializing knowledge. The paper gives an overview of the extent of … new firm formation in knowledge intensive and in innovative German industries and their development. The founding of a new …

contribute to discourses. 3. Further, there are internal communicative practices of movement knowledge generation. These can be …

Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge …, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this … of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of …

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …

, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …