Creation and transfer of knowledge : institutions and incentives / G. Barba Navaretti ... [and others], editors.

Fifteen essays in a "collection, which includes some of the papers presented at a conference jointly organised by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics"--P. [1].

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Production and Transmission of Knowledge: Institutions and Economic Incentives. An Introduction / Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Partha Dasgupta and Karl Goran Maler [and others] -- 2. Patronage and Innovation in Architecture / Mary Hollingsworth -- 3. Opening the Black Box of Innovation / Philippe Aghion and Jean Tirole -- 4. R&D Inter-firm Agreements in Developing Countries. Where? Why? How? / Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Andrea Bigano -- 5. Research and Productivity / Boyan Jovanovic and Yaw Nyarko -- 6. University Patenting Amid Changing Incentives for Commercialization / Rebecca Henderson, Adam B. Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg -- 7. Communication Norms and the Collective Cognitive Performance of "Invisible Colleges" / Paul A. David -- 8. Literacy and the Diffusion of Knowledge across Cultures and Times / Jack Goody -- 9. Market Failures, Education, and Macroeconomics / Giuseppe Bertola and Daniele Coen Pirani --

10. How to Finance Education when the Labor Force is Heterogeneous? / Jacques-Francois Thisse and Yves Zenou -- 11. The Role of Educational Institutions in the Art Sector: From Academies to the Grand Tour / Ilaria Bignamini and Enrico Castelnuovo -- 12. Oral Transmission in Indian Classical Music: The Gharana System / Alaknanda Patel -- 13. The International Transmission of Knowledge by Multinational Firms: Impacts on Source and Host Country Skilled Labor / James R. Markusen and Anthony J. Venables -- 14. Foreign Investment as a Vehicle for International Technology Transfer / Magnus Blomstrom and Ari Kokko.

Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production and diffusion of knowledge? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge has moved to the core of economic analysis.