concerning the nature and structure of technological knowledge, the sources of novel opportunities, the dynamics through which … diffusion affect growth and survival probabilities of heterogeneous firms. The processes of knowledge accumulation and diffusion … cycles influence the patterns of industrial organization—including size distributions, degrees of concentration, relative …

the peculiarities of knowledge as a public good. In this paper we aim at studying more deeply the latter concern. Hence we … description of the formation of knowledge externalities. In our framework a benevolent government buys immediately new patents in …; conversely, transition dynamics and the capital to knowledge ratio are affected by the choice of the policy parameter. We then …

revolution through entrepreneurs’ role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture …

knowledge at all times in a serendipitous way, the industrial revolution is an inevitable outcome. The paper characterizes the …

-desirable scale effects property and assumptions regarding the intensity of knowledge diffusion. In that respect, we extend a standard … Schumpeterian growth model by introducing explicitly knowledge diffusion over a Salop (1979) circle: a continuum of sectors … simultaneously sending and receiving knowledge is located over the circle. The link between knowledge diffusion and scale effects …

(lower) resource income, lower (higher) employment in the resource-intensive sector, higher (lower) knowledge creation and …