This chapter applies the framework of public goods to knowledge. It shows that knowledge has some characteristics of … public good, such as being non-rival in consumption and in the long run non excludable. But it also argues that knowledge … cannot be transferred from producers to users at low or negligible costs: to effectively use knowledge, prospective users …

access to knowledge was achieved when Haiti, backed by Great Britain, guaranteed that certain copyright exceptions intended … victory had had. This chapter, published as Chapter 3 of my book International Copyright and Access to Knowledge (CUP 2016 …

This paper surveys the literature and develops a framework for research into the integration of distributed knowledge … work (DKW). Knowledge work is considered to be “distributed” whenever key decisions for execution of the project cut across … recent years is well documented. Nonetheless, research into maintaining the coherence of a distributed knowledge work project …

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 …

We investigate how reforms that ease or restrict human mobility affect global innovation. We leverage a unique dataset … inventor mobility. Further, we show that positive migration reforms partly explain the increasing share of global knowledge … mobility contributed to the global shift in the geography of innovation towards emerging markets …