How to measure knowledge value has become an extremely important issue for enterprise. Only through understanding the change of knowledge value, the performance of knowledge management can be fully investigated. Although activity based costing (ABC) model can evaluate the corresponding knowledge value from the standpoint of enterprise benefits, it cannot predict the future change of knowledge v...

In this paper, we model a knowledge diffusion process in a dynamic social network and study two different techniques for self-organization aimed at improving the average knowledge owned by agents and the overall knowledge diffusion within the network. One is a weak self-organization technique requiring a system-level central control, while the other is a strong self-organization technique that ...

Scientists, social scientists and politicians frequently credit basic science with stimulating technological innovation, and with it economic growth. To support this idea, researchers have shown that patents based on university research receive more citations – a measure of patent importance – than those developed outside of academia. That research and much of the rhetoric it supports implicitl...

This paper develops a model in which measured total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenously determined, in order to quantitatively explain the following three facts of the Japanese growth miracle between 1956 and 1973. First, the growth rate of GDP per unit of labor in the second half of this period was 7.9 percent while in the first half it was only 5.5 percent. Second, the rate of return to...

The Post-Globalisation era has thrust businesses everywhere into new and different competitive situations where knowledgeable, effective and efficient behaviour has come to provide the competitive and comparative edge. Enterprises have turned to Knowledge Management to elaborate a systematic approach to develop and sustain the Intellectual Capital needed to succeed. To be able to do that, you h...

This study examines patterns of dynamic disciplinary knowledge production and diffusion. It uses a citation data set of Scopus indexed journals and proceedings. The journal-level citation data set is aggregated into 27 subject areas and these subjects are selected as the unit of analysis. A three-step approach is employed: the first step examines disciplines’ citation characteristics through sc...

* Much of the material in this paper arises from the collaborative work done with Nicolas Jonard, and owes much to him. I also acknowledge the very helpful comments of Muge Ozman and encouraging words of Franco Malerba. Much of modern micro-economics is built from the starting point of the perfectly competitive market. In this model there are an infinite number of agents — buyers and sellers, n...

This paper builds upon the previous research of Beynon-Davies and Williams (2003) and their knowledge-based model of the diffusion of Information Systems Development Methods (ISDMs). Through the lens of the implementation of a UK government IS development project we consider how a Rapid Application Development approach was unbundled and contextualized and highlight the problems experienced. We ...

Social media such as We Chat provide new ways of communicating healthcare information and knowledge. Many healthcare institutions leverage We Chat public platform to disseminate healthcare knowledge in the hope of attracting public attention. It is critical for them to build a comprehensive understanding of the factors affecting WeChat users’ willingness to diffuse healthcare knowledge, an issu...