Beschreibung:
This book makes a strong and coherent contribution to the discussion of the knowledge economy and innovation, offering a range of theoretical insights from different disciplinary perspectives
1. Introduction 2. Knowledge and Learning 3. Creating Knowledge: Transfer, Exchange and Gifts 4. Development of Economic Knowledge: Paradigms and New Ideas 5. Knowledge Exchange in Networks: Within-Firm Analysis 6. Knowledge Exchange between Firms: Economic Geography of High-Tech Firms 7. The Knowledge Base of an Economy: What Contributes to its Entropy? 8. A Dynamic Welfare Perspective for the Knowledge Economy 9. Concluding Remarks