This article contributes to the emerging theory of industry belief systems and the social construction of innovation by examining how industry actors conceptualise and negotiate industry transformation through the development and diffusion of new technologies. In a qualitative study of...

Are advances in ICTs enabling positive transformations in academic research practices? This paper explores key themes emerging from a 2008 survey of researchers aimed at identifying use and non-use of advanced ICTs for research. Deterministic perspectives on e-Research suggest that new...

e-Research initiatives have been launched around the world, but have they captured the imagination of researchers across the disciplines? This paper reports on a web-based survey designed to gauge awareness of and support for e-Research initiatives. Early adoption and interest in e-Research...

This paper examines some of the impacts of the widespread adoption and use of the Internet in advanced countries on business, consumers and the media. It is argued that while capital costs of entry into Internet-based businesses may be very low, this does not guarantee that markets in which such...

This paper examines the future for the growth and transmission of knowledge with a particular focus on the collision between the zero-marginal-cost economics of online publishing and the finite attention spans of those who download content. The paper tries to show that while it is likely that...

With four major companies sharing more than 85% of the market, the recording industry is one of the most concentrated industries. While this market concentration has been traditionally linked with high barriers to entry, recent technological changes have made these barriers almost disappear....

The paper is built around a critique of the recent book by McNeely and Wolverton, entitled Reinventing Knowledge. The paper first contests the concepts of 'knowledge' and 'institutions', before arguing that the 'systems' within which knowledge is embedded are in reality growing more and more...

Building on the author's recent survey of Western knowledge institutions since antiquity, this article assesses the impact of current trends in information technology, higher education, science, and the environment on knowledge production. Its focus on institutions diverges from conventional...

The single most important postulate in economics is what you assume about the totality of all possible states that the economy can be in (the state space). The assumption you make determines the costs of information and learning when exploring that state space, the nature of the equilibrating...

The crisis that started on Wall Street in mid-2007 and that has turned into a global financial and economic crisis is also a crisis of knowledge-based economies (KBEs). In fact, it is related to intrinsic features of such economies. The central point argued in this paper is the need for a...