Product Description: This book outlines how network technology can support, foster and enhance the Knowledge Management, Sharing and Development (KMSD) processes in professional environments through the activation of both formal and informal knowledge flows...read more

Product Description: The expert contributors to this book examine recent developments in empirical methods and applied simulation in evolutionary economics. Using examples of innovation and technology in industry, it is the first book to address the following questions in a systematic manner: * Can evolutionary economics use the same empirical methods as other research traditions in economics? * Is there a need for empirical methods appropriate to the subject matter chosen? * What is the relationship between appreciative theorising, case studies and more structured empirical methods? * What is the relationship of modelling and simulation to empirical analysis? Evolutionary economics is a relatively new research tradition and a book such as this, which discusses the need for empirical and simulation methods appropriate to evolutionary economics, will be of great interest to researchers of evolutionary economics and technological innovation...read more

Product Description: Economists, industrial engineers, and scholars of management, most from Europe, examine recent trends in analyzing knowledge and technology from an evolutionary perspective, based on the belief that such an approach can help a company maintain a competitive advantage in the global economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Technological Evolution, Variety and the Economy discusses the fundamental role played by qualitative change in economic development, the contribution made by technological change and innovation, and the analysis of these phenomena in terms of evolutionary theories...read more

Product Description: This major new book provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis of the nature and significance of collaboration between firms and other actors involved in industrial innovation. The motivations and mechanisms for technological collaboration, the fields in which it is likely to occur, and the consequences of collaboration for the parties involved and the economy as a whole are all addressed by a distinguished group of scholars drawn from economics, sociology, management theory and political economy...read more