-science relationships as enhancing regional knowledge economies : a comparative perspective from Japan and the UK -- 9. Placing Ireland … the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis …--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental …

, suggesting that knowledge diffusion among related industries is a key constrain shaping the diversification of exports. But does … knowledge about how to export to a destination also diffuses among related products and geographic neighbors? Do countries need …

This paper studies the equilibrium and the social optimum in an economy where knowledge diffusion interacts with … disease transmission. Knowledge increases productivity and is diffused through learning. A learner chooses the intensities in … speeding up both knowledge diffusion and the transmission of an infectious pathogen. An infection reduces productivity and …