In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based … explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a society, be it individually or collectively. I find that the aggregate … number of knowledge units in a society increases more slowly, the more naive its inhabitants are. I also find that the …

The connection between knowledge and innovation is inseparable. For every innovation there underlies a knowledge …-base from a specific discipline; or the knowledge-base could borrow from multiple discipline. Even though the conventional … innovation and its underlying knowledge-base, however, there is ample evidence in the literature that other constituents of a …