The knowledge society is characterized by knowledge becoming a kind of commodity that can be traded and priced …. Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are representative for such a knowledge-based economy, since their main input and … output factor is directly related to knowledge itself. While research on KIBS has been mainly conducted on the firm and …

rationality behaviour by people. Quite recent developments in the Economics of Knowledge, i.e. the so-called learning models, have …, has always considered sets of individuals with assumed characteristics, namely the level of knowledge, although in an … individuals, was characterised by a certain level of knowledge that, indeed, could be associated with the one of its …

Markets for knowledge are increasingly important to innovation, competitive advantage, and economic growth. This paper … examines five distinct markets through which knowledge can be exchanged: the market for codified knowledge (licensing), the … market for tacit knowledge (alliances), the market for encapsulated knowledge (sale/purchase of sophisticated products), the …

pronounced for knowledge that is distant to a focal organization we conclude that having access to a knowledge repository …The literature on organizational learning asserts that external learning is often limited geographically and … technologically. We scrutinize to what extent organizations acquire external knowledge by accessing external knowledge repositories …

knowledge, know-how and know-who for the DUI mode of innovation whereas the STI mode of innovation is said to rely on codified … knowledge, know-what and know-why. Based upon 81 in-depth interviews with German SMEs and regional innovation consultants, this …: product innovation, business process innovation & organizational routines and customer knowledge. However, the acquisition …

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based … explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a society, be it individually or collectively. I find that the aggregate … number of knowledge units in a society increases more slowly, the more naive its inhabitants are. I also find that the …

Innovation studies have largely recognized the role of knowledge in fostering innovation and growth of entrants …. Previous literature has focused on entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities and education and knowledge incorporated in … material and immaterial resources. We assume that new firms need to possess different pieces of knowledge, but beyond diversity …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …