Purpose – Doctoral education in business administration needs to change in order to cope with the fast growing demand for PhD holders, who can teach and perform research at a high quality level. Additionally, society has a rapidly growing need for knowledge workers who have a doctoral...

Introduction -- Knowledge and learning -- Creating knowledge : transfer, exchange and gifts -- Development of economic knowledge : paradigms & new ideas -- Knowledge exchange in networks : within-firm analysis -- Knowledge exchange between firms : economic geography of high-tech firms -- The...