The central motivation for assembling the contributions in this Handbook on the Knowledge Economy derives from the observation that many in government and business seem to have taken up the challenge of putting in place whatever is needed for a knowledge-based economy or a knowledge-based...

In the first atricle in European Finance N°2, Rooney shows that the service sector is increasing steadily in most of the developped economies but also in Hong Kong for example. And in this service sector the knowledge sector is growing in the form of an “advisory economy”, among other , in...

From farm to fork, food and beverage consumption can have significant negative impacts on energy consumption, water consumption, climate change, and other environmental subsystems. The paper presents a comprehensive, critical and systematic review of more than 350,000 sources of evidence, and a...

Innovation ecosystems are formed by interconnected firms that coalesce in interdependent networks to jointly create value. Such ecosystems rely on the norm of reciprocity - the give-and-take ethos of sharing knowledge-based resources. It is well established that an ecosystem firm can increase...

This handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and...