December 2001- Revised February 2002 <p> This article provides an introduction to fundamental issues in the development of new knowledge-based economies. After placing their emergence in historical perspective and proposing a theoretical framework that distinguishes knowledge from information, the...</p>

This paper attempts a greater precision and clarity of understanding concerning the nature and economic significance of knowledge and its variegated forms by presenting "the skeptical economist's guide to 'tacit' knowledge." It critically reconsiders the ways in which the concepts of tacitness...

March 2001 <p> “Open science" as a practise became increasing widespread in Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It represented a departure from the previously dominant ethos of secrecy in the pursuit of Nature’s Secrets, and its emergence was a distinctive and...</p>

March 2001 <p> Problematic issues are raised by the expressed intention of the European Commission to promote greater awareness on the part of scientists in the “European Research Area” about intellectual property rights and their uses in the context of “Internet intensive research...</p>

Finel Revision October 2002 <p> A new scheme of personal income tax reform would eliminate the inefficiencies arising from differences in the tax treatment of investments in intangible human capital and other types of capital formation. It also would offset the exacerbation of those distortions...</p>

Revised: March 24, 1999 <p> The original draft of this paper was presented to the American Economic Association Meetings session "In Honor of Edwin Mansfield," held in New York, N.Y., on January 5, 1999. <p> This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on...</p></p>

September 30, 1999 <p> Prepared for presentation at the European Summer School in Industrial Dynamics (ESSID), held at Institute d'Etudes Scientifique de Cargèse (Corse), France 5th - 12th September 1999