The article builds on the growing importance of knowledge as a strategic resource for maintaining the competitive advantage of abusiness. We illustrate one of the initiatives contributing to effective knowledge transfer by describing a case study approach which suggestshow universities might...

Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of AgricultureABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent...

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Social capital is about relationships that are often based on earned or inherited kernels of commonality. Social capital raises the ethical question of when relationships should be allowed to influence outcomes. The essential theory underlying the social capital paradigm is that relationships of...

This paper gives a general mathematical definition of an institution, and presents an explicit formal method by which to incorporate institutions in a standard general equilibrium model. We illustrate our concept using a modified Prisoner's dilemma game in which property rights over natural...

Contents: Ten Years of Exchanges: University of Padova-Minnesota, by Ben Senauer; An Overview of the Report of the National Research Council's Committee on the Future of the Land Grant University Colleges of Agriculture, by G. Edward Schuh; Changes in U.S. Agricultural Research, Teaching, and...

This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org

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This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org

This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org