Creation and Transfer of Knowledge

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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

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

      • Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Partha Dasgupta, Karl Göran Mäler, Domenico Siniscalco

      Pages 1-10

3. Production of Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Patronage and Innovation in Architecture

      • Mary Hollingsworth

      Pages 13-22

   3. Opening the Black Box of Innovation

      • Philippe Aghion, Jean Tirole

      Pages 23-31

   4. R&D Inter-firm Agreements in Developing Countries. Where? Why? How?

      • Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Andrea Bigano

      Pages 33-61

   5. Research and Productivity

      • Boyan Jovanovic, Yaw Nyarko

      Pages 63-85

   6. University Patenting Amid Changing Incentives for Commercialization

      • Rebecca Henderson, Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg

      Pages 87-114

   7. Communication Norms and the Collective Cognitive Performance of “Invisible Colleges”

      • Paul A. David

      Pages 115-163

4. Transmission and Diffusion of Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Literacy and the Diffusion of Knowledge across Cultures and Times

      • Jack Goody

      Pages 167-177

   3. Market Failures, Education and Macroeconomics

      • Giuseppe Bertola, Daniele Coen Pirani

      Pages 179-207

   4. How to Finance Education when the Labor Force is Heterogeneous?

      • Jacques-François Thisse, Yves Zenou

      Pages 209-223

   5. The Role of Educational Institutions in the Art Sector: From Academies to the Grand Tour

      • Ilaria Bignamini, Enrico Castelnuovo

      Pages 225-236

   6. Oral Transmission in Indian Classical Music The Gharana System

      • Alaknanda Patel

      Pages 237-251

   7. The International Transmission of Knowledge by Multinational Firms: Impacts on Source and Host Country Skilled Labor

      • James R. Markusen, Anthony J. Venables

      Pages 253-277

   8. Foreign Investment as a Vehicle for International Technology Transfer

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko

      Pages 279-311

5. Back Matter

   Pages 313-313

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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.

• Developing Countries
• Norm
• Patent
• communication
• development
• innovation

"This well written volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge to the focus of attention, as a key economic issue."
Euroabstracts, 38/1998

• Department of Economics Faculty of Political Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

  Giorgio Barba Navaretti

• Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

  Partha Dasgupta

• The Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

  Karl-Göran Mäler

• Department of Economics Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  Domenico Siniscalco

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