Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Institutions and IncentivesGiorgio Barba Navaretti, Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Göran Mäler, Domenico Siniscalco Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production and diffusion of knowledge? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge has moved to the core of economic analysis. Recent literature also gives profound insights into events like scientific progress, artistic and craft development which have been rarely addressed as socio-economic institutions, being the domain of sociologists and historians rather than economists. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge in the focus of attention, as a key economic issue. |
Contents
2 Patronage and Innovation in Architecture | 13 |
3 Opening the Black Box of Innovation | 23 |
4 RD Interfirm Agreements in Developing Countries Where? Why? How? | 33 |
5 Research and Productivity | 63 |
6 University Patenting Amid Changing Incentives for Commercialization | 87 |
7 Communication Norms and the Collective Cognitive Performance of Invisible Colleges | 115 |
8 Literacy and the Diffusion of Knowledge across Cultures and Times | 167 |
9 Market Failures Education and Macroeconomics | 179 |
10 How to Finance Education when the Labor Force is Heterogeneous? | 209 |
From Academies to the Grand Tour | 225 |
12 Oral Transmission in Indian Classical Music The Gharana System | 237 |
Impacts on Source and Host Country Skilled Labor | 253 |
14 Foreign Investment as a Vehicle for International Technology Transfer | 279 |
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Page 9 - There is a story, repeated by a number of Roman writers, that a man — characteristically unnamed — invented unbreakable glass and demonstrated it to Tiberius in anticipation of a great reward. The emperor asked the inventor whether anyone shared his secret and was assured that there was no one else; whereupon his head was promptly removed, lest, said Tiberius, gold be reduced to the value of mud.