This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human … capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of … providing knowledge economy catch-up strategies that can be understood within the context of country-specific gaps between the …

important role of developing, preserving and spreading human knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to provoke thinking and to …

Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak …

In historical perspective, both the nature of and arrangements for the generation of engineering knowledge have evolved … over the past 150 years. We examine the historical development of the search for ‘useful knowledge’ in agriculture … initiative in supporting this search. During this period, the US was engaged in the engineering knowledge was often empirical …

Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge …, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this … of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of …

Knowledge sharing arrangements are an important part of the innovation process as they help firms acquire technological … capabilities, shorten development time, and spread risk and cost. A question central to the study of knowledge sharing arrangements …

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited … commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that … "knowledge filter" between new knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the …

the national policy process and to offer certain conclusions for the tasks related to the progress toward a knowledge … difference between the NIS of the larger and smaller countries is the greater dependence on the external sources of knowledge and …