I present a computational study to examine a common assumption in organizational learning, that an exploitative knowledge acquisition strategy will accumulate less diverse knowledge than an explorative strategy. I show that this is not always the case: When taking into account factors that...

Operable knowledge features are discovered which present a structure of knowledge which is independent of the specific meaning or use of knowledge. This discovery presents a completely new mathematically based concept of knowledge for different disciplines like economy, sociology, communication...

Modelling is one of the key methods of scientific cognition in economics. It is a simplification of the existing reality with a view to its further study. The modeling method is so established in eco- nomic science that modern economic theory is completely defined by models as some formal...

In this article, we develop a method that uses altmetric data to analyse researchers' interactions, as a way of mapping the contexts of potential societal impact. In the face of an increasing policy demand for quantitative methodologies to assess societal impact, social media data (altmetrics)...

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For this we have used a data set of almost 3.000 firms that participated in the first and fifth survey of the Mannheimer Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The...