The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast … to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate … costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations framework of endogenous growth and show that the steady …

We study firms' incentives to transfer knowledge about production technology to a rival in a Cournot duopoly. In a … acquiring knowledge that will be transferred and not used. Furthermore, for the same point in the parameters space, the … acquisiton of full knowledge may occur or not as a function of the initial distribution of information …

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany …'s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according … high start-up activity in knowledge intensive regions. Group differentiation shows that knowledge stock variables matter …

sufficiently developed. Interregional knowledge spill-overs take place only when the initial technological gap is not too wide, and …

Compared to other regions of the world, Africa is lagging in its drive toward knowledge-based economies. This study … their current drive towards building knowledge-based economies. These are discussed in terms of three pillars of the World … Bank’s knowledge economy framework. They are the indices for: (i) education and skilled population, (ii) information and …

in the utilization of knowledge as its knowledge-based and data-driven economy continues to mature, and perhaps most … an age of machine knowledge capital …

Innovation studies have largely recognized the role of knowledge in fostering innovation and growth of entrants …. Previous literature has focused on entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities and education and knowledge incorporated in … material and immaterial resources. We assume that new firms need to possess different pieces of knowledge, but beyond diversity …

traditional knowledge and the potential it must generate resulting innovation.Methodology. The mentioned above is based on … defining what traditional knowledge is, the scope and limitations of the practice by the countries that recognize it, and its …

This paper investigates the long-run effects of prolonged air pollution on firm-level human capital, knowledge and … change the knowledge and innovation structure of the firms, with our estimates showing that pollution decreases innovations … pollution has created a gap in human capital, knowledge, and innovation between firms in the north and south of China …

knowledge from their clients’ technological proximity. We find that a client firm’s technological proximity to other clients of … offices within the same audit firm. Our findings suggest that the auditors’ technological proximity knowledge enhances the …