thesis stems exactly from the importance of knowledge and "knowledge diffusion" for the "knowledge based economy" and finally … dynamic industrial organization. The first chapter deals with the question how knowledge transfer affects knowledge diffusion …, new economic geography applications, which cover knowledge diffusion topics are mainly empirically orientated and suffer …

knowledge diffusion between technologically similar regions. The transition from theory to econometrics yields a reduced …

knowledge diffusion in a comprehensive approach. The aim of this paper is to highlight the link between knowledge transfer …, knowledge diffusion and network effects in a stochastic environment, because the adoption decision of new knowledge should be … treated as a stochastic event. For this reason, a new knowledge diffusion model in the line of Bass (1969) has been put …

diffusion. In this paper, we present a knowledge diffusion model based on the local-world non-uniform hypernetwork, which …(t) of knowledge stock to measure the growth and diffusion of knowledge and the adequacy of knowledge diffusion, we have made … evolution mechanisms affect the knowledge diffusion, respectively. As the diffusion mechanisms based on the hypernetwork combine …

the competitive environment. In this paper, we present an improved knowledge diffusion hypernetwork (IKDH) model based on … performance of knowledge diffusion. By analyzing different knowledge diffusion ways, selection ways of the highly knowledgeable … nodes, hypernetwork sizes and hypernetwork structures for the performance of knowledge diffusion, results show that the …