Advancing knowledge and the knowledge economy / / edited by Brian Kahin and Dominique Foray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911094683003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-262-29243-2; 1-282-09647-8; 0-262-25645-2; 1-4294-1613-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (514 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KahinBrian; ForayDominique
• Disciplina: 658.4/038
• Soggetti: Knowledge management; Information technology - Economic aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Inspired by a panel on the transformation of knowledge at the Transforming Enterprise conference"--P. x.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1 - Prospects for Knowledge Policy; 2 - Optimizing the Use of Knowledge; 3 - OECD Work on Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy; 4 - Measuring Knowledge and Its Economic Effects: The Role of Official Statistics; 5 - Assessing Innovation Capacity: Fitting Strategy, Indicators, and Policy to the Right Framework; 6 - Interactive Learning, Social Capital, and Economic Performance; 7 - Social Capital, Networks, and Communities of Knowledge; 8 - Knowing Communities in Organizations; 9 - Epistemic Infrastructure in the Rise of the Knowledge Economy; 10 - Universities and the Knowledge Economy 11 - The Impact of ICT on Tertiary Education: Advances and Promises; 12 - The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and University-Industry Technology Transfer: A Policy Model for Other Governments?; 13 - The Changing Dynamics of the Global Market for the Highly Skilled; 14 - Knowledge in Space: What Hope for the Poor Parts of the Globe?; 15 - Democratizing Innovation: The Evolving Phenomenon of User Innovation; 16 - Innovation, Experimentation, and Technological Change; 17 - Knowledge, ; Platforms, and the Division of Labor; 18 - Between ''Knowledge'' and ''The Economy'': Notes on the Scientific Study of Designs 19 - Patent Quantity and Quality: Trends and Policy Implications; 20 - Blurred Boundaries: Tensions Between Open Scientific Resources and Commercial Exploitation of Knowledge in Biomedical Research; 21 - The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond; 22 - ''Open and Collaborative'' Biomedical Research: Theory and Evidence; 23 - Critical Tensions in the Evolution of Open Source Software; 24 - Toward a Cyber infrastructure for Enhanced Scientific Collaboration: Providing Its ''Soft'' Foundations May Be the Hardest Part 25 - Cyber infrastructure-in-the-Making: Can We Get There from Here?; Contributors and Affiliations; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agencies are convinced that knowledge can be managed in sophisticated, rational ways and that networking and information technology are essential tools for doing so. In this collection, experts from North America and Europe look at the transformation of knowledge in the global economy in light of the rapid changes in information technology, the resulting explosion of data, the recognition of intangibles as sources of value and liability, and the increasingly blurred distinction between private and public knowledge. The appeal of the Internet as boundary-spanning knowledge infrastructure, bridging all sectors of the economy, is shadowed by another infrastructure of rights-based contracts, practices, and institutions. The contributors address the ways in which the processes for creating and organizing knowledge interact with information technology, business strategy, and changing social and economic conditions. They discuss the balkanization that results from the complexity of the knowledge economy, the variety of knowledge resources, the great diversity of institutional and market contexts, and competing models of control and cooperation--and of proprietary and non-proprietary knowledge. ContributorsBerglind Asgeirsdottir, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Kim B. Clark, Iain M. Cockburn, Patrick Cohendet, Robin Cowan, Paul A. David, Jan Fagerberg, Brian Fitzgerald, Dominque Foray, Peter A. Freeman, Fred Gault, Dietmar Harhoff, Margaret Hedstrom, C. Suzanne Iacono, Brian Kahin, John Leslie King, Kurt Larsen, Josh Lerner, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, David C. Mowery, Arti K. Rai, Bhaven Sampat, Martin Schaaper, Tom Schuller, W. Edward Steinmueller, Stefan Thomke, Jean Tirole, Reinhilde Veugelers, Stephan Vincent-Lancrin, Eric von Hippel, Andrew Wyckoff

The Global Impact of Demographic Change / / Tim Callen, Warwick McKibbin, Nicoletta Batini

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911150273103321
• Autore: Callen Tim
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• ISBN: 9786613830647; 9781462360918; 1462360912; 9781452752174; 1452752176; 9781283518192; 1283518198; 9781451908053; 1451908059
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (36 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers
• Altri autori (Persone): BatiniNicoletta; McKibbinWarwick
• Soggetti: Demography - Econometric models; Population - Economic aspects - Econometric models; Aging - Economic aspects - Econometric models; Saving and investment - Econometric models; Capital movements - Econometric models; Aging; Capacity; Capital; Demographic change; Demographic Economics: General; Demographic transition; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts; Demography; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Health economics; Health; Health: General; Intangible Capital; International Investment; Investment; Long-term Capital Movements; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Non-labor Market Discrimination; Population & demography; Population & migration geography; Population aging; Population and demographics; Population growth; Population; Saving; Wealth; Japan
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "January 2006."; "McKibbin's research in this paper was supported by the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Japanese Cabinet Office International Collaborations Project through the Brookings Institution and was prepared as background material for the September 2004 World Economic Outlook."--Title page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. SOME BACKGROUND ON GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE""; ""III. MODELING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE""; ""IV. HOW WILL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AFFECT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY?""; ""V. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""Appendix: The Analytical Approach""; ""References""
• Sommario/riassunto: The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over the next 80 years for Japan, the United States, other industrial countries, and the developing regions of the world using a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium four-country model containing demographics calibrated to the "medium variant" of the United Nations population projections. We find that population aging in industrial countries will reduce aggregate growth in these regions over time, but should boost growth in developing countries over the next 20-30 years, as the relative size of their workingage populations increases. Demographic change will also affect saving, investment, and capital flows, implying changes in global trade balances and asset prices. We also explore the sensitivity of the results to assumptions about future productivity growth and country external risk for the developing country region.