This chapter describes biobanks as institutions for collection, preservation, curation, and production of knowledge and … the knowledge commons framework. The chapter describes applications of the framework to biobanks to date and suggests …

This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the knowledge commons research framework. Knowledge commons … particular type of resource (knowledge). The research framework supplies a template for interrogating the details of knowledge …

Knowledge-based theorists have developed two primary arguments to explain the existence of firms: one based on avoiding … knowledge transfer and the other based on facilitating knowledge transfer. These arguments are not only contradictory, but also … fail to predict when hierarchies supplant markets and when markets prevail. This paper develops a knowledge-based theory of …

Knowledge-based theorists have developed two primary arguments to explain the existence of firms: one based on avoiding … knowledge transfer and the other based on facilitating knowledge transfer. These arguments are not only contradictory, but also … fail to predict when hierarchies supplant markets and when markets prevail. This paper develops a knowledge-based theory of …

innovation and information policy. Eleven detailed case studies apply and discuss the framework exploring knowledge commons …“Knowledge commons” describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation …, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources. It is the subject of …

to the role(s) of intellectual property systems in institutional contexts concerning innovation and creativity. Knowledge …This chapter describes methods for systematically studying knowledge commons as an institutional mode of governance of … knowledge and information resources, including references to adjacent but distinct approaches to research that looks primarily …

This paper investigates the role of the market for knowledge in shaping firm hierarchy—that is, the span of control and … the number of layers. We predict that, the larger the extent of the market for knowledge, the larger the span of control … market for knowledge expands …

source of value creation is an organization’s knowledge, and the organization’s ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge … through learning. The rise of the knowledge economy in today’s marketplace is an indicator these changes are occurring … knowledge obtained from learning. A large part of organizational learning involves knowledge conversion modes or processes that …