It is now widely recognized that many of the central unresolved problems in economic policy, management and research turn on questions of knowledge. Increasingly, complex firms and agencies must ask, and answer, such difficult questions as: What is knowledge? Where is it? Who has it? Does the...

Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies. The specific...

This paper analyses business-driven innovation in education by looking at education-related patents. It first draws a picture of the challenges for innovation in the formal education sector, which suffers from a poor knowledge ecology: science is hardly linked to core teaching and administrative...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Prospects for Knowledge Policy -- 2 - Optimizing the Use of Knowledge -- 3 - OECD Work on Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy -- 4 - Measuring Knowledge and Its Economic Effects: The Role of Official Statistics -- 5 - Assessing Innovation Capacity: Fitting...

The effect of a firm's size is analysed in relation with the probability of applying for a patent. We worked on the identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size the costs associated with protection are so...

1. The origin -- 2. From smart specialisation to smart specialisation policy -- 3. Designing a smart specialisation strategy -- 4. Goal variations according to regional development -- 5. Towards practical implementation.