Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 6 Issue 4

Constructing the knowledge base for knowledge‐driven development

Robin Mansell

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) represent a major opportunity for world development. However, the “digital divide” is increasing rather than diminishing existing…

An analysis of co‐operative agreements from a knowledge‐based perspective: an integrative conceptual framework

Alejandro Escribá‐Esteve, José Anastasio Urra‐Urbieta

The last decade has been witness to an unprecedented growth in the number of alliances between companies. This growing importance of interfirm co‐operation, together with its…

Basque Country: the knowledge cluster

Angel Luis Arboníes, Mónica Moso

Clusters have basically been conceptualised as a concentration of firms that prosper on the basis of their interaction. However, the classical cluster concept is developing in a…

Knowledge clusters of technological innovation systems

Carlos Scheel

One of the main producers of wealth and prosperity of industrialized countries is the existence of sustainable systems, capable of converting technological innovation assets into…

Knowledge partnerships for a sustainable, equitable and stable society

Thomas F. Malone, Gary W. Yohe

Continued exponential and asymmetrical growth in both population and individual economic productivity would propel world society along a path that is environmentally…

Capital systems: implications for a global knowledge agenda

Francisco J. Carrillo

This paper explores ways in which knowledge management (KM) can enrich and be enriched by practices associated with social‐level knowledge‐based development (KBD), thus bridging…

Evolving knowledge for development: the role of knowledge management in a changing world

Kathia Castro Laszlo, Alexander Laszlo

In today’s changing world, knowledge, and the processes to generate it and manage it, have become key factors in creating competitive business advantage. However, the challenges…