the 'Knowledge or Learning Economy'. Along with the traditional economic factors that have been considered in the … environment and the characteristics of some information and knowledge intensive firms, supported by the Regional Center for …

Markets for knowledge are increasingly important to innovation, competitive advantage, and economic growth. This paper … examines five distinct markets through which knowledge can be exchanged: the market for codified knowledge (licensing), the … market for tacit knowledge (alliances), the market for encapsulated knowledge (sale/purchase of sophisticated products), the …

, has always considered sets of individuals with assumed characteristics, namely the level of knowledge, although in an … individuals, was characterised by a certain level of knowledge that, indeed, could be associated with the one of its …, since the very first economic models of the government, it was assumed that the level of knowledge of society, represented …

, has always considered sets of individuals with assumed characteristics, namely the level of knowledge, although in an … individuals, was characterised by a certain level of knowledge that, indeed, could be associated with the one of its …, since the very first economic models of the government, it was assumed that the level of knowledge of society, represented …

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 …