Research Catalog

Title

Doing business in the knowledge-based economy : facts and policy challenges / edited by Louis A. Lefebvre, Elisabeth Lefebvre and Pierre Mohnen.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Lefebvre, L. A.
• Lefebvre, Elisabeth.
• Mohnen, Pierre A.
• Canada. Industry Canada.

Description

xiv, 494 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Information technology > Government policy > Congresses
• Information technology > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Business > Data processing > Congresses
• Management > Data processing > Congresses
• Knowledge management > Congresses
• International trade > Congresses
• Management information systems > Congresses
• Electronic commerce > Congresses

Note

• "Published in association with Industrie Canada, Industry Canada."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Trends and Forces Shaping the New Reality. 1. The Emerging Global Knowledge-Based Economy: Trends and Forces / Surendra Gera, Clifton Lee-Sing and Keith Newton. 2. The Economic Underpinnings of a Knowledge-Based Economy / Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung. 3. The Global Information Infrastructure: From the Virtual Enterprise to the Virtual Economy / Louis A. Lefebvre, Elisabeth Lefebvre and Pierre Mohnen -- Pt. 2. Restructuring and Reorganizing in a Knowledge-Based Economy. 4. Organizational Learning and Intellectual Capital / Keith Newton and Sunder Magun. 5. U.S. Manufacturing: Technology and Public Policy in the "Knowledge Age" / John E. Ettlie. 6. Industry - University - Government Research Partnerships for Economic Development in the U.S. / Frederick Betz. 7. A Firm-Based Approach to Industry Classification: Identifying the Knowledge-Based Economy / John R. Baldwin and Guy Gellatly.
• 8. The Cost of Capital for Knowledge-Based Enterprises in Canada / Cecile Carpentier, Jean-Francois L'Her and Jean-Marc Suret. 9. Innovation, M&As and International Competition with an Application to Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology / Maria-Angels Oliva and Luis A. Rivera-Batiz -- Pt. 3. Key Governance Issues in the Knowledge-Based Economy. 10. Electronic Commerce and the Information Highway / Luc Soete. 11. Public Management of Positive Research Externalities / Patrick Cohendet, Dominique Foray and Dominique Guellec / [et al.]. 12. Intellectual Property Rights and the Transition to the Knowledge-Based Economy / Iain M. Cockburn and Paul Chwelos. 13. Industrial Restructuring in the Knowledge-Based Economy / Marcel Boyer, Jacques Robert and Hugues Santerre. 14. Canadian Public Policy in a Knowledge-Based Economy / Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung -- Pt. 4. Summing-Up: What Have We Learned?
• 15. Bringing it Together: Some Policy Challenges / Elisabeth Lefebvre, Louis A. Lefebvre and Piere Mohnen.

ISBN

0792372441 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00051988

OCLC

• ocm45208029
• SCSB-4107686

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries