This paper investigates firm-to-firm technology and knowledge sharing in firms from the food manufacturing sector. Traditionally driven by secret recipes and family-grounded procedures, food processing firms are naturally unwilling and indisposed to embrace collaborative undertaking and develop...

Creation and Transfer of Knowledge Institutions and Incentives¤Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production and diffusion of knowledge? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge...

Kommunale Wirtschaftspolitik hat die Aufgabe, Rahmenbedingungen zu schaffen, unter denen die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der lokalen und regionalen Wirtschaft gesteigert werden kann. Eine wichtige Rolle spielt in diesem Zusammenhang der Know-how- und Anwendungstransfer von neuen Techniken. Das...