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A Model of Demand with Interactions Among Consumers 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 869
An econometric investigation of the productivity gender gap in Mexican research, and a simulation study of the effects on scientific performance of policy scenarios to promote gender equality 0 1 4 58 4 6 11 119
Bilateral collaboration and the emergence of networks 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
Community cohesion and inherited networks - A network study of two handloom clusters in Kerala, India 0 0 0 16 0 1 3 93
Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists 0 0 2 10 0 0 5 30
Editors’ introduction to spatial knowledge networks: structure, driving forces and innovative performances 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 28
Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks and the effects of mobility on academic performance 0 0 0 32 2 2 7 58
Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 92
Evolving Networks of Inventors 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Evolving Networks of Inventors 0 0 0 210 1 2 2 487
Expert Systems: Aspects of and Limitations to the Codifiability of Knowledge 0 0 0 374 1 1 3 2,041
Far from random?: The role of homophily in student supervision 0 0 1 10 2 3 9 99
Fits and Misfits: Technological Matching and R & D Networks 0 0 0 49 1 1 3 157
Fits and Misfits: Technological Matching and R&D Networks 0 0 0 71 1 2 2 177
Fits and misfits: technological matching and R&D networks 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 21
Fits and misfits: technological matching and R&D networks 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19
From drains to bridges 0 0 2 4 2 3 14 21
Fundamental Issues in the Justification of Profits 0 0 0 52 0 0 0 503
Gender Gaps and Scientific Productivity in Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Mexico 0 1 1 24 2 3 5 99
Global excellence at the expense of local relevance, or a bridge between two worlds? Research in science and technology in the developing world 0 0 0 40 2 2 7 357
Habit Formation, Information Exchange and the Social Geography of Demand 0 0 0 65 0 0 1 259
Hysteresis in the Canadian Labour Market: Evidence from the 1990s 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 733
If the Alliance Fits...: Innovation and Network Dynamics 0 0 1 103 0 0 2 170
If the Alliance Fits...: Innovation and Network Dynamics 0 0 0 107 2 2 2 255
Including excluded groups: The slow racial transformation of the South African university system 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 94
Inertia, Interaction and Clustering in Demand 0 0 0 51 3 6 7 231
Informal knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A network study of handloom clusters in Kerala, India 0 0 0 76 0 3 4 222
Information Technology and the Dynamics of Joint Innovation 0 0 0 85 1 2 2 357
Intellectual property rights in a knowledge-based economy 1 2 3 843 6 17 53 3,292
Interactive knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A simulation model 0 0 0 110 0 0 1 130
Knowledge Dynamics in a Network Industry 0 0 0 340 0 1 4 869
Knowledge Structures 0 0 1 120 1 1 3 226
Knowledge Transfer and the Services Sector in the Context of the New Economy 0 0 0 279 1 2 4 625
Knowledge creation and flows in Science 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Knowledge dynamics in a network industry 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10
Learning from Disaster 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
Local Externalities and Spatial Equilibria: Technological Standardization and the Preservation of Variety 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 9
Merit, Approbation and the Evolution of Social Structure 0 0 0 83 1 1 1 439
Merit, approbation and the evolution of social structure 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2
Mimetic behaviour and institutional persistence: A two-armed bandit experiment 0 0 3 46 1 1 6 75
More is less: Multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge 0 0 1 5 1 1 3 16
Mutual Illusions and Financing New Technologies: Two-Sided Informational Cascades 0 0 0 71 1 1 1 299
NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS: A STUDY IN TECHNOLOGICAL LOCK-IN 0 0 0 224 0 0 3 1,905
Network Formation, Innovation and IT Use 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Network Structure and the Diffusion of Knowledge 0 0 1 1,130 1 1 5 2,584
Network architecture, barter exchange and the diffusion of ideas 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2
Network models of innovation and knowledge diffusion 0 0 1 1,195 1 2 5 3,743
Network structure and the diffusion of knowledge 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 12
Network-independent partner selection and the evolution of innovation networks 0 0 0 155 0 0 2 328
Network-independent partner selection and the evolution of innovation networks 0 0 1 105 0 1 2 238
Networks as Emergent Structures from Bilateral Collaboration 0 0 0 127 0 0 0 402
Networks models of innovation and knowledge diffusion 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 8
On The Variance of Market Innovation with the Number of Firms 0 0 0 50 0 1 1 201
On substitution of intellectual property and free disclosure: an analysis of R&D strategies in software technologies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
On the creation of networks and knowledge 0 0 0 200 1 1 1 410
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects 0 0 0 42 3 4 4 64
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects 0 0 0 13 1 1 2 49
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects 0 0 0 15 1 3 3 54
Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: Competing policy goals in South African academia 1 1 1 9 1 1 2 12
Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: Competing policy goals in South African academia 0 0 0 11 0 0 3 19
Peer Networks and Malleability of Educational Aspirations 0 0 0 18 3 5 8 29
Peer networks and malleability of educational aspirations 0 1 5 23 6 9 22 56
Ph.D. Publication Productivity: The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 32
Ph.D. research output in STEM: the role of gender and race in supervision 1 2 6 61 2 3 12 142
Prescriptions for network strategy: Does evidence of network effects in cross-section support them? 0 0 1 43 2 2 4 166
Productivity effects of innovation, stress and social relations 0 0 0 262 0 0 4 1,981
Productivity effects of innovation, stress and social relations 0 0 1 68 0 1 4 234
Protecting the digital endeavour: prospects for intellectual property rights in the information society 0 0 0 120 0 2 3 552
Quandaries in the Economics of Dual Technologies and Spillovers from Military to Civilian Research and Development 0 1 2 11 3 5 11 551
Rankings and Job Market Dynamics 0 0 7 7 3 7 20 20
Running The Marathon 0 0 0 43 0 0 2 261
Running The Marathon 0 0 1 23 0 0 1 114
Self-efficacy beliefs and imitation: A two-armed bandit experiment 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 9
Short-term effects of new universities on regional innovation 0 0 0 78 0 0 1 246
Short-term effects of new universities on regional innovation 0 0 0 58 0 0 0 108
Social Networks and Agricultural Performance: A Multiplex Analysis of Interactions Among Indian Rice Farmers 0 0 1 13 1 1 6 23
Social Sorting 0 0 0 117 0 1 1 889
Social networks and agricultural performance: A multiplex analysis of interactions among Indian rice farmers 1 1 1 21 10 26 29 71
Spatially Dependent Interactions: A Statistical Approach to Spatial Equilibria, Technological Standardization and Variety 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 222
Sprayed to Death: On the Lock-in of an Inferior Pest Control Strategy 0 0 0 22 0 0 1 283
Sprayed to Death: Pest Control Strategies and Technological Lock-In 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 9
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 11
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes 0 0 4 5 1 2 4 6
Structural Holes, Innovation and the Distribution of Ideas 0 0 0 198 2 2 2 587
Structural Holes, Innovation and the Distribution of Ideas 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
TECHNOLOGICAL VARIETY AND COMPETITION: ISSUES OF DIFFUSION AND INTERVENTION 0 0 0 24 0 1 1 301
Technological Standardization with and without Borders in an Interacting Agents Model 0 0 0 296 0 0 0 803
The Dynamics of Collective Invention 0 0 0 252 0 1 1 570
The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness 0 1 2 438 0 1 5 1,068
The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness 0 0 0 911 1 1 3 2,335
The Genetic causal Tradition of Modern Economic History 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 487
The Genetic-Causal Moment in Eocnomic Theory 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 371
The Joint Dynamics of Networks and Knowledge 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 397
The Workings of Scientific Communities 0 0 0 118 0 0 0 305
The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion 0 0 0 85 0 1 1 171
The role of local colleagues in establishing international scientific collaboration: Social capital in emerging science systems 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26
Universities and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 298 0 0 1 759
University Effect on Regional Inovation 0 0 0 131 0 0 2 331
Waves and Cycles: Explorations in the Pure Theory of Price for Fine Art 0 0 0 112 0 0 0 350
Waves and Cycles: Explorations in the Pure Theory of Price for Fine Art 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Waves in Consumption with Interdependence among Consumers 0 1 1 160 0 1 1 550
Waves in consumption with interdependence among consumers 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2
Word-of-mouth interaction and the organization of behaviour 0 0 0 42 1 1 3 149
Total Working Papers 4 12 56 10,790 91 171 400 39,209


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A model of demand with interactions among consumers 0 0 0 125 0 0 3 327
Bilateral Collaboration and the Emergence of Innovation Networks 0 0 0 65 0 0 2 308
Complémentarités cognitives et production de connaissances nouvelles. Une analyse en termes de réseaux 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 52
Editors’ introduction to spatial knowledge networks: structure, driving forces and innovative performances 0 0 0 7 2 2 3 48
Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 48
Evolutionary economics and the counterfactual threat: on the nature and role of counterfactual history as an empirical tool in economics 0 0 0 173 0 0 0 655
Evolving networks of inventors 0 0 0 114 0 0 0 278
Expert systems: aspects of and limitations to the codifiability of knowledge 0 0 0 90 1 2 3 461
Global excellence at the expense of local diffusion, or a bridge between two worlds? Research in science and technology in the developing world 0 1 1 21 2 4 6 119
Merit, approbation and the evolution of social structure 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 125
Modular organization and informal structure: Modularity, performance, and the alignment of organizational networks 0 0 1 1 1 2 8 10
Network architecture, barter exchange and the diffusion of ideas 0 0 0 45 0 0 1 157
Network structure and the diffusion of knowledge 0 1 1 916 2 3 12 2,220
Network-Independent Partner Selection and the Evolution of Innovation Networks 0 0 0 68 2 6 8 212
Nuclear Power Reactors: A Study in Technological Lock-in 1 2 2 91 2 4 11 347
On Clustering in the Location of R&D: Statics and Dynamics 0 0 0 11 1 1 4 37
On substitution of intellectual property and free disclosure: an analysis of R&D strategies in software technologies 0 0 0 63 1 1 4 259
On the Number of Firms and the Quantity of Innovation 0 0 0 78 0 0 0 296
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects in the case of South Africa 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 83
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa 0 0 1 1 2 2 10 14
Productivity effects of innovation, stress and social relations 0 0 0 65 1 1 6 277
Quandaries in the economics of dual technologies and spillovers from military to civilian research and development 1 2 5 120 4 6 16 420
Self-efficacy beliefs and imitation: A two-armed bandit experiment 0 0 1 15 0 1 5 90
Showing or telling? Local interaction and organization of behavior 0 0 0 13 1 1 1 62
Sprayed to Death: Path Dependence, Lock-In and Pest Control Strategies 1 1 3 368 2 2 14 1,070
Structural holes, innovation and the distribution of ideas 0 0 0 43 0 2 3 142
Technological standards with local externalities and decentralized behaviour 0 0 0 126 1 1 3 761
The Demise of Nuclear Power? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology. By Joseph G. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 172. $22.50, cloth; $6.95, paper 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 32
The Economics of Codification and the Diffusion of Knowledge 0 0 0 4 3 3 17 1,007
The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness 0 0 0 1 5 9 21 2,022
The Genetic‐Causal Tradition and Modern Economic Theory 0 1 1 11 0 1 2 309
The Organization of Economic Innovation in Europe: Alfonso Gambardella and Franco Malerba (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1999, [UK pound] 45.00, ISBN 0-521-64303-1 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 215
The dynamics of collective invention 0 0 0 234 1 1 2 561
The role of local colleagues in establishing international scientific collaboration: Social capital in emerging science systems 0 1 1 1 0 3 5 7
Tortoises and Hares: Choice among Technologies of Unknown Merit 0 0 2 211 1 2 5 711
University effects on regional innovation 1 3 4 101 2 6 16 403
Waves in consumption with interdependence among consumers 0 0 1 71 0 0 3 306
Waves in consumption with interdependence among consumers 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16
Total Journal Articles 4 12 24 3,355 37 67 201 14,467


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Causation and genetic causation in economic theory 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 66
Evolving networks of inventors 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 5
Knowledge Creation And Flows In Science 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
Learning from disaster 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 19
On the Workings of Scientific Communities 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 24
Running the Marathon 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 33
Waves and Cycles: Explorations in the Pure Theory of Price for Fine Art 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 26
Total Chapters 0 0 0 17 2 4 8 178


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