Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctivecompetences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions forlocalized knowledge appropriation and exploitation makes it possible to identify idiosyncratic production factors....

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledgeemerges and through which it is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a networkcannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing welook...

This paper argues for a radical new understanding of the topic generally referred to as Tacit Knowledge. On the basis of a new appraisal of the work of Michael Polanyi, we argue that mapping, assessing, fostering, developing, and improving the tacit component in all use of skill and knowledge is...

Innovation is still an obscure concept although many efforts have been made to improve the understanding and measurement of it. The growth of service activities throughout the economy has encouraged scholars, policy makers and executives to explore the determinants and features of the innovation...

The functionality of organizational routines, i.e. the factual value for accomplishing theirpurposes, is an important constraint on the capabilities an organization can bring to bear on itsoperations. Often falling short of its potential, the actual make-up of organizational routinesinvites...

Measuring organizations’ readiness for collaboration and accordingly knowledge managementhas been a topic for years. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and its new possibilities for moreeffective collaboration, it has become increasingly relevant to determine the maturity of anorganization in...

Traditionally, Cities have been seen as places in which through the exchange and combination ofdiverse knowledge pools innovative social, political and economical practises are created and testedwith large positive spill-over effects to the (perhaps even nationally defined) hinterland (e.g....

„In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lastingcompetitive advantage is knowledge.“1Dieses Zitat und die Vielzahl der Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Wissensmanagementweisen auf die mit dem Strukturwandel von der Industrie- zur...

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of themost discussed key words within the openinnovation community. The major question forboth research and business is how to find andlever the enormous potential of the “collectivebrain”. This research in progress paper providesan approach for finding...