This study examines the effect of technology spillovers on firms’ cash holdings. It finds that firms facing greater technology spillovers hold higher cash balances. This effect is more pronounced among financially constrained firms and for firms that are likely to benefit more from diffused technology, e.g., those have newer patents, are more profitable, face better growth opportunities and are...

In order to improve the knowledge diffusion effect in Open Source Software Community (OSSC), we built a mult agent-based modle to simulate the whole process of knowledge diffusion in OSSC. First, by analisying real OSSC, a open source software community model was built. Second, mechanisms such as knowledge diffusion mechanism, partnership selection mechanism, knowledge learning mechanism and kn...

The TeacherBridge (Basic Resources for Integrated Distributed Group Environments) motivates collaboration and supports online tools for teachers’ professional resource management by providing a socio-technical infrastructure for community networks. While this project focuses initially on local science and mathematics teachers, resources developed are designed to be globally diffused to a wide v...

This is a model of knowledge exchange by informal interaction among agents in a low technology cluster. The paper studies these knowledge exchanges in an environment of complex social relations. This study tests whether the small-world network structure is the most favorable for knowledge exchanges in these environments, and explores the influence of social relations and network distance on mag...

Capturing and diffusing the knowledge generated on projects is highly problematic due to the idiosyncratic, complex and dynamic nature of projects. In particular, the recurrent re-organisation required by projects – especially the constant re-formation of project teams – militates against the systematic codification of knowledge or its embodiment in the knowledge base of project teams. This pap...