A standardized coefficients model to explain and assess the importance of some factors that currently are contributing to patenting level in the Mexican states is proposed. From a theoretical point of view, patenting level may be the result of several factors such as the growth of the high-tech...

The values and the value of higher education are equally contested issues in contemporary South Africa. The affirmation of the ‘utility’ or ‘market value’ of higher education (Etzkowitz <CitationRef CitationID="CR14">2002</CitationRef>), especially in the context of an emerging network knowledge economy (Castells <CitationRef CitationID="CR6">1996</CitationRef>), is...</citationref></citationref>

An attempt is undertaken to reveal the conceptual grounds of the opposition and resistance to innovations. The origins and evolution of the views on the reception of new ideas, during the last half a century, have been traced, and the conclusion drawn that the social and personal dimensions are...

Universities are a well-known source of innovation that provides educated human resources, a scientific infrastructure, and their own research and development (R&D) capacity. In this way, they supply considerable and varied input to the economic environment. Yet the impacts of economic crises on...

This paper tries to examine the interrelationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and the economic growth for three African economies, namely, Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt during 1985–2011. Our analysis, which is based on a simultaneous equations model, reveals that in overall...

The aim of this paper is to understand knowledge management enablers (KMEs) and to identify priority weights to evaluate the strength of the corresponding factors present before knowledge management (KM) implementation. It uses analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology to prioritize KMEs that...

This paper aims to explore the role of interpersonal trust and knowledge in the number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), both conceptually and empirically. The number of SMEs in an economy seems largely to depend on level of knowledge of employees and educational level of leading...

This article analyses the changes in production and demand for knowledge products arising from network externalities. The demand curve of a product under network effects is concave in shape. This specificity is determined by the intrinsic value (value that it itself contributes), the marginal...

As science and technology policy-makers focus on understanding how industry networks evolve, this study discusses how environmental changes affect the evolution of industrial networks, especially in the flat panel display (FPD) sector. By investigating different environmental scenarios, it can...

As real-time news updates and analysis have become widely available, one has to rethink the effect of noise on news. Noise has the fundamental property of becoming dominant over short periods of time. As a result, many “breaking news” stories may appear more exciting and important that what...