This fascinating handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical...

Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) has recently been recognised as the world’s most efficient and customer focused privatised airport. Studying the corporate strategies and knowledge management issues faced by a company as successful as BAC holds important insights. This paper discusses four...

Purpose: This paper sets out to describe and illustrate an emerging shift in the conceptualisation of value creation in business, namely the emergence of value ecology thinking.----- Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines shifts in the understanding of value creation in key business,...

Claims have been made about the role of ICTs in regional sustainability for some time. However, ICT initiatives have often stalled for a number of reasons: • They are largely ICT supply-driven and fail to specify and address the local cultural impediments and opportunities. In particular, they...

Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) has recently been recognised as the world?s most efficient and customer focused privatised airport. Studying the corporate strategies and knowledge management issues faced by a company as successful as BAC holds important insights. This paper discusses four key...

The question posed in this chapter is: To what extent does current education theory and practice prepare graduates for the creative economy? We first define what we mean by the term creative economy, explain why we think it is a significant point of focus, derive its key features, describe the...