Introduction -- Knowledge and learning -- Creating knowledge : transfer, exchange and gifts -- Development of economic … knowledge : paradigms & new ideas -- Knowledge exchange in networks : within-firm analysis -- Knowledge exchange between firms … : economic geography of high-tech firms -- The knowledge base of an economy : what contributes to its entropy? -- A dynamic …

of the discipline, begins by discussing "knowledge" as an economic good and the historical development of the knowledge … chapters include forms of knowledge production, codification and infusion, incentives and institutions for the efficient … production of knowledge (including discussions of private markets and "open" sources), and knowledge management as a new …