of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples … drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach …

that firms' knowledge bases must "fit" in order for joint learning and innovation to be possible, and thus for an alliance … social capital considerations. In this paper we emphasize instead the role of complementary knowledge stocks (broadly defined …) in partner selection, arguing not only that knowledge complementarity should not be overlooked, but that is may be the …

We model knowledge diffusion in a population of agents situated on a network, interacting only over direct ties. Some … (proportion of traders), the network structure (clustering, path length and degree distribution), and the scarcity of knowledge … connected agents do well when knowledge is scarce, agents in clustered neighbourhoods do well when it is abundant. The latter …

labour market. The challenge today appears more or less similar, but this time with respect to knowledge. Interestingly, it … social welfare models that have performed best in terms of knowledge investments. This suggests, that success in boosting … knowledge investment generates the public resources for the development of social welfare models capable of addressing rapid …

examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and … leather products. In particular, it seeks to investigate the importance of various sources of knowledge in explaining … productivity in the different industries. The knowledge sources driving productivity performance are very different across sectors …

knowledge in African industry. First, we examined modes of learning proxied by training in small and medium firms. We found that … elementary learning mechanisms such as apprenticeship, resulting in the creation of tacit knowledge, are the dominant forms of … learning. While knowledge externalities tend to benefit larger firms, small enterprises with little absorptive capacity are …

Technological innovation depends on knowledge developed by scientific research. The num-ber of citations made in … patents to the scientific literature has been suggested as an indicator of this process of transfer of knowledge from science …-to-sector ma-trix of knowledge flows. We then propose a method to analyze this matrix and construct vari-ous indicators of science …

and the globalization of innovation, in which the developing countries have an increasingly important role to play. In the … we study the increasing complexity in the knowledge creation process caused by this dynamic interaction between the …

In recent years public policies for science, technology and innovation have attracted increased attention as a result … of claims that knowledge-intensive industries are now at the core of growth, and that we are now entering a completely … new form of 'knowledge society'. The objectives of this paper are firstly to examine what various authors mean by the …