Creation and Transfer of Knowledge

Title: Creation and Transfer of Knowledge
Author: D. Siniscalco, G. Barba Navretti, K.G. Maler, P. Dasgupta
ISBN: 3540644261 / 9783540644262
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 313
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Year: 1998
Availability: In Stock

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Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production and diffusion of knowledge? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge has moved to the core of economic analysis. Recent literature also gives profound insights into events like scientific progress, artistic and craft development which have been rarely addressed as socio-economic institutions, being the domain of sociologists and historians rather than economists. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge in the focus of attention, as a key economic issue.

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Preface

Chapter 1 : Production and Transmission of Knowledge: Institutions and Economic Incentives. An Introduction

Part I : Production of Knowledge
Chapter 2 : Patronage and Innovation in Architecture
Chapter 3 : Opening the Black Box of Innovation
Chapter 4 : R&D Inter-firm Agreements in Developing Countries. Where? Why? How?
Chapter 5 : Research and Productivity
Chapter 6 : University Patenting Amid Changing Incentives for Commercialization
Chapter 7 : Communication Norms and the Collective Cognitive Performance of "Invisible Colleges"

Part II : Transmission and Diffusion of Knowledge
Chapter 8 : Literacy and the Diffusion of Knowledge across Cultures and Times
Chapter 9 : Market Failures, Education, and Macroeconomics
Chapter 10 : How to Finance Education when the Labor Force is Heterogeneous?
Chapter 11 : The Role of Educational Institutions in the Art Sector: From Academies to the Grand Tour
Chapter 12 : Oral Transmission in Indian Classical Music: The Gharana System
Chapter 13 : The International Transmission of Knowledge by Multinational Firms: Impacts on Source and Host Country Skilled Labor
Chapter 14 : Foreign Investment as a Vehicle for International Technology Transfer