The authors examine the causes and consequences of complexity among the broadly economic phenomena of firms, industries and socio-economic policy. The book makes a valuable contribution to the increasingly prominent subject of complexity, especially for those whose interests include...

Introduction -- Knowledge and learning -- Creating knowledge : transfer, exchange and gifts -- Development of economic knowledge : paradigms & new ideas -- Knowledge exchange in networks : within-firm analysis -- Knowledge exchange between firms : economic geography of high-tech firms -- The...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Knowledge and learning -- chapter 3 Creating knowledge: Transfer, exchange and gifts -- chapter 4 Development of economic knowledge: Paradigms and new ideas -- chapter 5 Knowledge exchange in networks: within-firm analysis -- chapter 6 Knowledge exchange...

Although informal networks are often emphasized as facilitating knowledge transfer, we use network data obtained from a multi-unit high-tech firm to show that the formal network also significantly contributes to inter-unit knowledge transfer. Individuals centrally placed in a network are, in...