the knowledge involved in their creation is likely to be dispersed and distributed between many individuals and over … numerous locations. The authors argue that even if one assumes that the internal knowledge base is of strategic importance to … many companies, most of the knowledge used by the majority of companies is developed outside the company. Since much …

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 …

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 … knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge …

extent to which the knowledge production of a multilateral development bank can reach its beneficiaries. We find that IDB …