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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …