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A Model of Demand with Interactions Among Consumers 0 0 0 4 5 9 10 878
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 0 2 58 0 1 9 120
Bilateral collaboration and the emergence of networks 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 7
Community cohesion and inherited networks - A network study of two handloom clusters in Kerala, India 0 0 0 16 1 2 5 95
Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists 0 0 2 10 2 4 9 34
Editors’ introduction to spatial knowledge networks: structure, driving forces and innovative performances 0 0 0 2 1 4 6 32
Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks and the effects of mobility on academic performance 0 0 0 32 8 11 16 69
Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance 0 0 0 39 6 6 6 98
Evolving Networks of Inventors 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 6
Evolving Networks of Inventors 0 0 0 210 0 4 6 491
Expert Systems: Aspects of and Limitations to the Codifiability of Knowledge 0 0 0 374 4 6 9 2,047
Far from random?: The role of homophily in student supervision 0 0 1 10 1 3 11 102
Fits and Misfits: Technological Matching and R & D Networks 0 0 0 49 3 3 6 160
Fits and Misfits: Technological Matching and R&D Networks 0 0 0 71 1 7 9 184
Fits and misfits: technological matching and R&D networks 0 0 0 0 3 3 5 22
Fits and misfits: technological matching and R&D networks 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 22
From drains to bridges 0 1 3 5 2 8 20 29
Fundamental Issues in the Justification of Profits 0 0 0 52 4 6 6 509
Gender Gaps and Scientific Productivity in Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Mexico 0 0 1 24 5 8 12 107
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 8 14 365
Habit Formation, Information Exchange and the Social Geography of Demand 0 0 0 65 1 2 2 261
Hysteresis in the Canadian Labour Market: Evidence from the 1990s 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 737
If the Alliance Fits...: Innovation and Network Dynamics 0 0 0 107 3 4 6 259
If the Alliance Fits...: Innovation and Network Dynamics 0 0 0 103 1 4 4 174
Including excluded groups: The slow racial transformation of the South African university system 0 0 0 28 4 7 7 101
Inertia, Interaction and Clustering in Demand 0 0 0 51 2 9 16 240
Informal knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A network study of handloom clusters in Kerala, India 0 0 0 76 2 4 8 226
Information Technology and the Dynamics of Joint Innovation 0 0 0 85 1 4 6 361
Intellectual property rights in a knowledge-based economy 1 5 8 848 12 32 72 3,324
Interactive knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A simulation model 0 0 0 110 4 7 8 137
Knowledge Dynamics in a Network Industry 0 0 0 340 6 7 10 876
Knowledge Structures 0 0 0 120 6 10 12 236
Knowledge Transfer and the Services Sector in the Context of the New Economy 0 0 0 279 1 1 5 626
Knowledge creation and flows in Science 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 4
Knowledge dynamics in a network industry 0 0 0 0 2 5 6 15
Learning from Disaster 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5
Local Externalities and Spatial Equilibria: Technological Standardization and the Preservation of Variety 0 0 0 1 4 5 6 14
Merit, Approbation and the Evolution of Social Structure 0 0 0 83 1 4 5 443
Merit, approbation and the evolution of social structure 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 4
Mimetic behaviour and institutional persistence: A two-armed bandit experiment 0 0 2 46 3 3 8 78
More is less: Multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge 0 0 0 5 1 3 5 19
Mutual Illusions and Financing New Technologies: Two-Sided Informational Cascades 0 0 0 71 0 3 4 302
NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS: A STUDY IN TECHNOLOGICAL LOCK-IN 0 0 0 224 5 8 9 1,913
Network Formation, Innovation and IT Use 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 4
Network Structure and the Diffusion of Knowledge 0 0 1 1,130 5 6 9 2,590
Network architecture, barter exchange and the diffusion of ideas 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3
Network models of innovation and knowledge diffusion 0 0 1 1,195 10 16 21 3,759
Network structure and the diffusion of knowledge 0 0 0 1 1 5 6 17
Network-independent partner selection and the evolution of innovation networks 1 1 1 106 1 5 6 243
Network-independent partner selection and the evolution of innovation networks 0 0 0 155 3 5 6 333
Networks as Emergent Structures from Bilateral Collaboration 0 0 0 127 4 6 6 408
Networks models of innovation and knowledge diffusion 0 0 0 0 6 12 15 20
On The Variance of Market Innovation with the Number of Firms 0 0 0 50 1 3 4 204
On substitution of intellectual property and free disclosure: an analysis of R&D strategies in software technologies 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3
On the creation of networks and knowledge 0 0 0 200 1 3 4 413
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects 0 0 0 15 1 4 7 58
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects 0 0 0 13 5 7 9 56
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects 0 0 0 42 2 4 8 68
Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: Competing policy goals in South African academia 0 0 0 11 0 4 6 23
Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: Competing policy goals in South African academia 0 0 1 9 1 3 4 15
Peer Networks and Malleability of Educational Aspirations 1 1 1 19 6 9 16 38
Peer networks and malleability of educational aspirations 0 1 6 24 9 14 32 70
Ph.D. Publication Productivity: The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa 0 0 0 1 4 5 8 37
Ph.D. research output in STEM: the role of gender and race in supervision 0 0 3 61 8 12 20 154
Prescriptions for network strategy: Does evidence of network effects in cross-section support them? 0 0 1 43 0 2 6 168
Productivity effects of innovation, stress and social relations 0 0 0 262 8 10 14 1,991
Productivity effects of innovation, stress and social relations 0 0 0 68 1 2 5 236
Protecting the digital endeavour: prospects for intellectual property rights in the information society 0 0 0 120 2 7 10 559
Quandaries in the Economics of Dual Technologies and Spillovers from Military to Civilian Research and Development 0 0 1 11 3 7 15 558
Rankings and Job Market Dynamics 0 0 7 7 1 7 22 27
Running The Marathon 0 0 0 43 2 2 2 263
Running The Marathon 0 0 0 23 0 2 2 116
Self-efficacy beliefs and imitation: A two-armed bandit experiment 0 0 0 1 0 5 7 14
Short-term effects of new universities on regional innovation 0 0 0 78 7 9 10 255
Short-term effects of new universities on regional innovation 0 0 0 58 1 6 6 114
Social Networks and Agricultural Performance: A Multiplex Analysis of Interactions Among Indian Rice Farmers 0 0 1 13 4 9 15 32
Social Sorting 0 0 0 117 1 2 3 891
Social networks and agricultural performance: A multiplex analysis of interactions among Indian rice farmers 0 0 1 21 2 13 41 84
Spatially Dependent Interactions: A Statistical Approach to Spatial Equilibria, Technological Standardization and Variety 0 0 0 1 7 8 9 230
Sprayed to Death: On the Lock-in of an Inferior Pest Control Strategy 0 0 0 22 1 3 4 286
Sprayed to Death: Pest Control Strategies and Technological Lock-In 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 11
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes 0 1 5 6 4 11 15 17
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes 0 0 1 1 4 5 11 16
Structural Holes, Innovation and the Distribution of Ideas 0 2 2 200 2 6 8 593
Structural Holes, Innovation and the Distribution of Ideas 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 4
TECHNOLOGICAL VARIETY AND COMPETITION: ISSUES OF DIFFUSION AND INTERVENTION 0 0 0 24 2 2 3 303
Technological Standardization with and without Borders in an Interacting Agents Model 0 0 0 296 0 1 1 804
The Dynamics of Collective Invention 0 0 0 252 0 3 4 573
The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness 1 1 2 439 6 9 11 1,077
The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness 1 2 2 913 3 6 7 2,341
The Genetic causal Tradition of Modern Economic History 0 0 0 28 2 3 4 490
The Genetic-Causal Moment in Eocnomic Theory 0 0 0 13 0 1 3 372
The Joint Dynamics of Networks and Knowledge 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 400
The Workings of Scientific Communities 0 0 0 118 0 1 1 306
The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion 0 0 0 85 1 4 5 175
The role of local colleagues in establishing international scientific collaboration: Social capital in emerging science systems 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 29
Universities and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 298 3 8 9 767
University Effect on Regional Inovation 0 0 0 131 2 2 3 333
Waves and Cycles: Explorations in the Pure Theory of Price for Fine Art 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Waves and Cycles: Explorations in the Pure Theory of Price for Fine Art 0 0 0 112 0 1 1 351
Waves in Consumption with Interdependence among Consumers 0 0 1 160 4 4 5 554
Waves in consumption with interdependence among consumers 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 5
Word-of-mouth interaction and the organization of behaviour 0 0 0 42 1 2 5 151
Total Working Papers 5 15 57 10,805 265 537 864 39,746


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A model of demand with interactions among consumers 0 0 0 125 2 3 6 330
Bilateral Collaboration and the Emergence of Innovation Networks 0 0 0 65 3 10 12 318
Complémentarités cognitives et production de connaissances nouvelles. Une analyse en termes de réseaux 0 0 0 9 0 2 3 54
Editors’ introduction to spatial knowledge networks: structure, driving forces and innovative performances 0 0 0 7 5 8 11 56
Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance 0 0 0 5 3 6 6 54
Evolutionary economics and the counterfactual threat: on the nature and role of counterfactual history as an empirical tool in economics 0 0 0 173 3 3 3 658
Evolving networks of inventors 0 0 0 114 2 3 3 281
Expert systems: aspects of and limitations to the codifiability of knowledge 0 0 0 90 4 4 7 465
Global excellence at the expense of local diffusion, or a bridge between two worlds? Research in science and technology in the developing world 0 0 1 21 2 4 10 123
Merit, approbation and the evolution of social structure 0 0 0 17 2 3 4 128
Modular organization and informal structure: Modularity, performance, and the alignment of organizational networks 1 1 1 2 10 11 18 21
Network architecture, barter exchange and the diffusion of ideas 0 0 0 45 5 5 6 162
Network structure and the diffusion of knowledge 0 0 1 916 0 5 14 2,225
Network-Independent Partner Selection and the Evolution of Innovation Networks 0 0 0 68 3 9 16 221
Nuclear Power Reactors: A Study in Technological Lock-in 0 0 2 91 1 5 12 352
On Clustering in the Location of R&D: Statics and Dynamics 0 0 0 11 0 5 9 42
On substitution of intellectual property and free disclosure: an analysis of R&D strategies in software technologies 0 0 0 63 1 3 6 262
On the Number of Firms and the Quantity of Innovation 0 0 0 78 1 1 1 297
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects in the case of South Africa 0 0 0 14 3 7 7 90
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa 0 0 1 1 1 4 12 18
Productivity effects of innovation, stress and social relations 0 0 0 65 2 4 7 281
Quandaries in the economics of dual technologies and spillovers from military to civilian research and development 0 1 3 121 7 17 24 437
Self-efficacy beliefs and imitation: A two-armed bandit experiment 0 0 1 15 2 6 11 96
Showing or telling? Local interaction and organization of behavior 0 0 0 13 5 7 8 69
Sprayed to Death: Path Dependence, Lock-In and Pest Control Strategies 0 1 4 369 5 11 23 1,081
Structural holes, innovation and the distribution of ideas 0 0 0 43 3 5 7 147
Technological standards with local externalities and decentralized behaviour 0 0 0 126 2 5 8 766
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 1 2 3 34
The Economics of Codification and the Diffusion of Knowledge 0 0 0 4 9 14 26 1,021
The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness 0 0 0 1 7 15 34 2,037
The Genetic‐Causal Tradition and Modern Economic Theory 0 0 1 11 1 3 5 312
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 2 5 6 566
The role of local colleagues in establishing international scientific collaboration: Social capital in emerging science systems 0 0 1 1 8 11 16 18
Tortoises and Hares: Choice among Technologies of Unknown Merit 0 0 0 211 1 2 5 713
University effects on regional innovation 0 0 3 101 4 7 20 410
Waves in consumption with interdependence among consumers 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 19
Waves in consumption with interdependence among consumers 0 1 1 72 1 5 7 311
Total Journal Articles 1 4 20 3,359 111 223 380 14,690


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Causation and genetic causation in economic theory 0 0 0 6 4 5 5 71
Evolving networks of inventors 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 10
Knowledge Creation And Flows In Science 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 8
Learning from disaster 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 21
On the Workings of Scientific Communities 0 0 0 8 0 2 3 26
Running the Marathon 0 0 0 1 3 3 5 36
Waves and Cycles: Explorations in the Pure Theory of Price for Fine Art 0 0 0 1 2 4 5 30
Total Chapters 0 0 0 17 12 24 32 202


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