List of tables x // List of figures xi // Preface xii // 1 Introduction 1 // 2 Knowledge and learning 4 // 3 Creating knowledge: transfer, exchange and gifts 18 // 4 Development of economic knowledge: paradigms and new ideas 36 // 5 Knowledge exchange in networks: within-firm analysis 48 // 6 Knowledge exchange between firms: economic geography of high-tech firms 66 // 7 The knowledge base of an economy: what contributes to its entropy? 77 // 8 A dynamic welfare perspective for the knowledge economy 101 // 9 Concluding remarks 120 // Notes 123 // References 129 // Index 152