Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy

Name: Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
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ISBN: 9780262113007

ISBN-10: 0262113007

ISBN-13: 9780262113007

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dominique Foray, Brian Kahin

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The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agencies are convinced that knowledge can be managed in sophisticated, rational ways and that networking and information technology are essential tools for doing so. In this collection, experts from North America and Europe look at the transformation of knowledge in the global economy in light of the rapid changes in information technology, the resulting explosion of data, the recognition of intangibles as…

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List price: $17.75
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/29/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 504
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English

Dominique Foray holds the Chair in Economics and Management of Innovation and is Director of the College of Management of Technology at ï¿½cole Polytechnique Fï¿½dï¿½rale de Lausanne. He is the author of The Economics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2004).

Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington, DC. He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and a special advisor to the Provost's Office. He is a coeditor of Transforming Enterprise (MIT Press, 2004) and many other books.



Preface



Prospects for Knowledge Policy




Optimizing the Use of Knowledge




OECD Work on Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy




Measuring Knowledge



Measuring Knowledge and Its Economic Effects: The Role of Official Statistics




Assessing Innovation Capacity: Fitting Strategy, Indicators, and Policy to the Right Framework




Knowledge Communities



Interactive Learning, Social Capital, and Economic Performance




Social Capital, Networks, and Communities of Knowledge




Knowing Communities in Organizations




The Changing Role of Institutions



Epistemic Infrastructure in the Rise of the Knowledge Economy




Universities and the Knowledge Economy




The Impact of ICT on Tertiary Education: Advances and Promises




The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and University-Industry Technology Transfer: A Policy Model for Other Governments?




Knowledge and Place



The Changing Dynamics of the Global Market for the Highly Skilled




Knowledge in Space: What Hope for the Poor Parts of the Globe?




New Models of Innovation



Democratizing Innovation: The Evolving Phenomenon of User Innovation




Innovation, Experimentation, and Technological Change




Knowledge, Platforms, and the Division of Labor




Between "Knowledge" and "The Economy": Notes on the Scientific Study of Designs




Models of Control and Cooperation



Patent Quantity and Quality: Trends and Policy Implications




Blurred Boundaries: Tensions Between Open Scientific Resources and Commercial Exploitation of Knowledge in Biomedical Research




The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond




"Open and Collaborative" Biomedical Research: Theory and Evidence




Critical Tensions in the Evolution of Open Source Software




Emerging Infrastructure



Toward a Cyberinfrastructure for Enhanced Scientific Collaboration: Providing Its "Soft" Foundations May Be the Hardest Part




Cyberinfrastruture-in-the-Making: Can We Get There from Here?



Contributors and Affiliations


Index