groups of consumers. For both researchers and practitioners, consumer knowledge is a critical factor in creating competitive … success over time. But there is a gap in the knowledge management literature, which has recognized the importance of the … customer as a source of knowledge, but has not recognized the importance of a group of consumers as well. Scholars, in fact …

The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a … Physics-borrowed model, trying to prove whether knowledge resources can "flow" (be percolated) in a network or a grid, in … order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the Knowledge Flow Percolation Model center, human beings are seen …

Is the paradise of effortless communication the ideal environment for knowledge creation? Or, can the development of … local culture in regions raise knowledge productivity compared to a single region with a unitary culture? In other words …, can a real technological increase in the cost of collaboration and the cost of public knowledge flow between regions …

add another layer of difficulty with almost constant knowledge obsolescence and knowledge update requirements. Corporate … knowledge management initiatives are an essential way to overcome these problems, sometimes as a complement to training, other … times even as a substitute. But corporate knowledge management has a great deal to learn from the experiences of online …

-MNC knowledge flows. Furthermore, it introduces complimentary knowledge stocks into the concept of absorptive capacity. A set of … ‘technology gap' hypothesis applied at industry level. Furthermore, subsidiaries' complimentary knowledge stocks increase the … probability for corresponding knowledge inflows from the foreign parent …

We analyze how a product's design hierarchy shapes the evolution of the underlying body of technological knowledge … extend this literature by analyzing the design hierarchy's effect on the evolution of the industry's knowledge base, using … trajectory of knowledge generation, identified through a patent-citation network analysis, and link it to a classification of …

. Firms' benefits from collaborations arise by sharing knowledge about a cost-reducing technology. By forming collaborations …