This ground-breaking new volume evaluates the capacity of the triple helix model to represent the recent evolution of local and national systems of innovation. It analyses both the success of the triple helix as a descriptive and empirical model within internationally competitive technology...

In the last years, a codification debate has developed among economists concerning the meaning and the empirical relevance of tacit knowledge. As this debate seems to have reached an impasse, we suggest a solution to take it a step further that is based on a more precise definition of tacit...