This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach focuses attention directly on the types of...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple dynamic model to analyze researchers' interest in answering questions for an online question and answer (Q&A) knowledge market. With use of a System Dynamics model, an online knowledge market can be modeled as a marketplace where consumers ask and researchers answer questions to make knowledge transactions. In this market, consumers price their q...

This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach focuses attention directly on the types of...

This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach focuses attention directly on the types of...

We explore the basic model of a virtual marketplace for information goods and knowledge. We propose the 3-R model—reputations, relationships, and recommendations—as a framework for understanding the future network society. We assert that the mechanism that governs a knowledge market is the explicit circulation of reputation. Next, we analyze the differences between a knowledge market and other ...

Web technologies enable the discovery and exchange of knowledge from many different locations using many different channels. This implies that one is able to discover and exchange knowledge while using a PDA when traveling by train for instance. A provisional Web-based application referred to as ‘DEXAR: Discovery and eXchange of Revealed knowledge’ is therefore introduced to illustrate the poss...

We propose a formal approach to Ontology-Based Semantic Matchmaking between Skills request and offer, devised as a virtual marketplace of knowledge. In such a knowledge market metaphor, skills are a peculiar kind of goods that have distinguishing characteristics with respect to traditional assets. Buyers are entities that need the skills of people, such as projects, departments and organization...