The Knowledge-based economy stands in focus for much of European policy and is also a policy issue within the OECD. The discourse on the coming of the knowledge (based) society and/or the knowledge (based) economy – with roots in the 1980s may be looked upon as a transformation of the still older discussions on the post industrial society (cf. eg. the foreword in Bell, 1973/76). Common proposit...

If knowledge-based economic systems are to be adopted, succeed and be disseminated, many significant barriers must be overcome regardless of how advanced a country is in terms of its infrastructure and domestic production. This paper describes an investigation of the critical factors associated with the adoption and dissemination of a knowledge economy initiative. The focus of the research is o...

The concept of knowledge and its related dimensions of information and learning have traditionally received considerable research attention by scholars of organization and strategic management theorists. The increasing role of knowledge as a defining characteristic of the modern knowledge economy has renewed an interest to the importance of knowledge to a firm's competitive advantage. Such inte...

The notion of knowledge-based economy has been introduced in recent years in the economics of science and innovation, to indicate a qualitative transition in economic conditions where knowledge production has become central for the economic dynamics and development. As such, it has also been widely used in political discussion especially at the European level. However, already some of its fathe...