insights from sustainability transitions, organizational learning, and higher education studies to develop a perspective on the …While knowledge has long been central to theories of innovation-led regional development, its conceptualization within … action-oriented nature of knowledge, as it increasingly associates with the matters of directionality, materiality and …

We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small …-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We … find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast …

periods of varying length that full accounts of subjects' learning requires the consideration of, both, 'period time' and …

This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. In the theory …, knowledge is a costly input for firms that they can acquire at their headquarters or their production plants. Communication … costs impede the access of the plants to headquarter knowledge. The model shows that multinational firms systematically …

This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper … develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production … plants if communication costs impede the access of production plants to headquarter knowledge. The paper assumes that the …

Firms can use different sources of external knowledge for developing and implementing innovations. Some knowledge is … provided deliberately by the source and constitutes intended knowledge spillovers, e.g., knowledge disclosed in publications or … patent files. Other sources represent unintended knowledge spillovers, such as reverse engineering of technologies or hiring …