Doing Business in the Knowledge-Based Economy : Facts and Policy Challenges

This volume identifies and analyzes the challenges facing governments in conducting business in the knowledge-based economy. It presents essays in three primary categories: trends and forces shaping the new reality; re-structuring and re-organization, and key governance issues.

Contributors. Acknowledgments. Foreword. Part 1: Trends and Forces Shaping the New Reality. 1. The Emerging Global Knowledge-Based Economy: Trends and Forces; S. Gera, et al. 2. The Economic Underpinnings of a Knowledge-Based Economy; R. Morck, B. Yeung. 3. The Global Information Infrastructure: From the Virtual Enterprise to the Virtual Economy; L.A. Lefebvre, et al. Part 2: Restructuring and Reorganizing INA Knowledge-Based Economy. 4. Organizational Learning and Intellectual Capital; K. Newton, S. Magun. 5. U.S. Manufacturing: Technology and Public Policy in the `Knowledge Age''; J.E. Ettlie. 6. Industry - University - Government Research Partnerships for Economic Development in the U.S.; F. Betz. 7. A Firm-Based Approach to Industry Classification: Identifying the Knowledge-Based Economy; J.R. Baldwin, G. Gellatly. 8. The Cost of Capital for Knowledge-Based Enterprises in Canada; C. Carpentier, et al. 9. Innovation, M&As and International Competition with an Application to Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology; M.-A. Oliva, L. Rivera-Batiz. Part 3: Key Governance Issues in the Knowledge-based Economy. 10. Electronic Commerce and the Information Highway; L. Soete. 11. Public Management of Positive Research Externalities; P. Cohendet, et al. 12. Intellectual Property Rights and the Transition to the Knowledge Based Economy; I.M. Cockburn, P. Chwelos. 13. Industrial Restructuring in the Knowledge-Based Economy; M. Boyer, et al. 14. Canadian Public Policy in a Knowledge-Based Economy; R. Morck, B. Yeung. Part 4: Summing-Up: What Have We Learned? 15. Bringing it Together: Some Policy Challenges; E. Lefebvre, et al. Index.