Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to aim to quantitatively evaluate the importance of ICTs for sustainable development. A hypothesis about the criticality of ICTs to sustainable development has been tested. The consequences of other ICT elements on knowledge management also have been...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse if and how technology districts use proximity dimensions (such as geographical, organizational, and cognitive) as a communication resource for accessing external knowledge sources. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve this purpose, the...

Purpose – This paper presents best practices of global and local initiatives for social and economic capital development. It introduces the notion of “megacommunities” representing broad multilateral stakeholder groups that work together for the resolutions of large‐scale health,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the generation and transfer of knowledge in information technology‐related small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – Based on a survey of 105 employees from 30 organizations in Barcelona, Spain, the authors use a...

Purpose – Following the line traced by two previous works of Albino et al. and Messeni Petruzzelli, the paper aims to analyze how technology districts reach and acquire external competencies and capabilities by means of organizational and cognitive proximity. This allows districts to modify...