questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge …, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this … of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of …

of knowledge. The development by Turgot and Smith of a concept of capital that subsumed other factors contributing to … development led their followers to focus on capital to the neglect of the independent role of knowledge. The paper demonstrates …

We examine antecedents of knowledge recombination and technological breakthroughs. Conceptualizing exploration as a …

differences in scientific knowledge creation. I use data on the prevalence of specific allele variants of the human DRD4 exon III … relationship to scientific knowledge creation in society. The results suggest a positive and statistically significant linear … facilitates scientific knowledge creation through beneficial human behaviors related to risk-taking and explorative behavior. The …

The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast … to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate … costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations framework of endogenous growth and show that the steady …

We study firms' incentives to transfer knowledge about production technology to a rival in a Cournot duopoly. In a … acquiring knowledge that will be transferred and not used. Furthermore, for the same point in the parameters space, the … acquisiton of full knowledge may occur or not as a function of the initial distribution of information …

sufficiently developed. Interregional knowledge spill-overs take place only when the initial technological gap is not too wide, and …