| Description |
x, 503 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Prospects for knowledge policy / Brian Kahin -- 2. Optimizing the use of knowledge / Dominique Foray -- 3. OECD work on knowledge and the knowledge economy / Berglind Asgeirsdottir -- 4. Measuring knowledge and its economic effects : the role of official statistics / Fred Gault -- 5. Assessing innovation capacity : fitting strategy, indicators, and policy to the right framework / Reinhilde Veugelers -- 6. Interactive learning, social capital, and economic performance / Bengt-Ake Lundvall -- 7. Social capital, networks, and communities of knowledge / Tom Schuller -- 8. Knowing communities in organizations / Patrick Cohendet -- 9. Epistemic infrastructure in the rise of the knowledge economy / Margaret Hedstrom and John Leslie King -- 10. Universities and the knowledge economy / Robin Cowan -- 11. The impact of ICT on tertiary education : advances and promises / Kurt Larsen and Stephan Vincent-Lancrin -- 12. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and university-industry technology transfer : a policy model for other governments? / David C. Mowery and Bhaven Sampat -- 13. The changing dynamics of the global market for the highly skilled / Andrew Wyckoff and Martin Schaaper -- 14. Knowledge in space : what hope for the poor parts of the globe? / Jan Fagerberg -- 15. Democratizing innovation : the evolving phenomenon of user innovation / Eric von Hippel -- 16. Innovation, experimentation, and technological change / Stefan Thomke -- 17. Knowledge, platforms, and the division of labor / W. Edward Steinmueller -- 18. Between "knowledge" and "the economy" : notes on the scientific study of designs / Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark -- 19. Patent quantity and quality : trends and policy implications / Dietmar Harhoff -- 20. Blurred boundaries : tensions between open scientific resources and commercial exploitation of knowledge in biomedical research / Iain M. Cockburn -- 21. The economics of technology sharing : open source and beyond / Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole -- 22. "Open and collaborative" biomedical research : theory and evidence / Arti K. Rai -- 23. Critical tensions in the evolution of open source software / Brian Fitzgerald -- 24. Toward a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific collaboration : providing its "soft" foundations may be the hardest part / Paul A. David -- 25. Cyberinfrastructure-in-the-making : can we get there from here? / C. Suzanne Iacono and Peter A. Freeman |
| Summary |
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 sources of value and liability, and the increasingly blurred distinction between private and public knowledge. The appeal of the Internet as boundary-spanning knowledge infrastructure, bridging all sectors of the economy, is shadowed by another infrastructure of rights-based contracts, practices, and institutions. The contributors address the ways in which the processes for creating and organizing knowledge interact with information technology, business strategy, and changing social and economic conditions. They discuss the balkanization that results from the complexity of the knowledge economy, the variety of knowledge resources, the great diversity of institutional and market contexts, and competing models of control and cooperation--and of proprietary and non-proprietary knowledge. ContributorsBerglind Asgeirsdottir, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Kim B. Clark, Iain M. Cockburn, Patrick Cohendet, Robin Cowan, Paul A. David, Jan Fagerberg, Brian Fitzgerald, Dominque Foray, Peter A. Freeman, Fred Gault, Dietmar Harhoff, Margaret Hedstrom, C. Suzanne Iacono, Brian Kahin, John Leslie King, Kurt Larsen, Josh Lerner, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, David C. Mowery, Arti K. Rai, Bhaven Sampat, Martin Schaaper, Tom Schuller, W. Edward Steinmueller, Stefan Thomke, Jean Tirole, Reinhilde Veugelers, Stephan Vincent-Lancrin, Eric von Hippel, Andrew Wyckoff |
| Analysis |
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy |
| Notes |
"Inspired by a panel on the transformation of knowledge at the Transforming Enterprise conference"--P. x |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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Knowledge management -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Foray, Dominique.
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Kahin, Brian.
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2005058229 |
| ISBN |
0262113007 (hbk.) |
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0262612143 (paperback) |
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9780262113007 (hbk.) |
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9780262612142 (paperback) |
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