We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the...

We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the...

Incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues such as the evolution of...

1. Origins and Development of Collaborative Spaces -- 2. FabLab: An attractive and innovative collaborative space -- 3. Management, barriers, and self-organisation in FabLabs -- 4. Innovative FabLabs -- 5. Collaborative Practices and Knowledge Sharing in FabLabs.