nep-knm New Economics Papers
on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy
Issue of 2015‒12‒28
six papers chosen by
Laura Ştefănescu
Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor
  1. The Role of Knowledge Economy in African Business By Vanessa Tchamyou
  2. E-Skills, Brains And Performance Of The Firms: ICT And Ability Of Firms To Conduct Successful Projects In Luxembourg By Anissa Chaibi; Adel Ben Youssef; Leila Peltier-Ben Aoun
  3. The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Knowledge Economy in Africa By Simplice Asongu; Vanessa Tchamyou
  4. Knowledge Diffusion, Endogenous Growth, and the Costs of Global Climate Policy By Lucas Bretschger; Filippo Lechthaler; Sebastian Rausch; Lin Zhang
  5. Patent Rights and Innovation by Small and Large Firms By Alberto Galasso; Mark Schankerman
  6. Causal Relations between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Regional Employment Growth By Thomas Brenner; Marco Capasso; Matthias Duschl; Koen Frenken; Tania Treibich
  1. By: Vanessa Tchamyou (Yaoundé/Cameroun)
    Abstract: This paper assesses the role knowledge economy (KE) in African business in 53 countries for the period 1996-2010. The four KE components of the World Bank are employed, notably: education, innovation, economic incentives & institutional regime and information & communication technology. The business indicators are classified into: starting, doing and ending business. Principal components analysis and panel instrumental variable fixed effects approaches are employed as empirical strategies. The findings which are broadly consistent with intuition and the predictions of economic theory suggest that KE policies will substantially boost the starting and doing of business in Africa. This is relevant in fighting unemployment and improving African competitiveness in global value chains. Policy implications for the relevance of each specific KE dimension in African business are discussed with particular emphasis on the theoretical underpinnings of the study. The investigation is original in its contribution at the same time to the scarce literature on African KE and the growing challenges of improving the business climate of the continent by means of KE.
    Keywords: Knowledge Economy; Doing business; Development; Africa
    JEL: L59 O10 O30 O20 O55
    Date: 2015–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:agd:wpaper:15/049&r=knm
  2. By: Anissa Chaibi (IPAG Business School, Paris - GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Adel Ben Youssef (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Leila Peltier-Ben Aoun (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
    Abstract: This paper provides original empirical evidence on the causal links between e-skills, usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and firm's performance using a sample of Luxembourgian manufacturing and services firms. Firm performance is measured in terms of innovation (success of new projects settled). Our main findings are: (i) there's no relationship between the absorptive technology capacity of the firm (measured by ICT staff and Training) and the probability of the implementation of successful ICT projects, (ii) there is a positive effect of e-applications usage (ICT usage) on the probability of the implementation of successful new projects, and (iii) there is an asymmetric effect of usage of e-commerce and e-administration confirming findings of the recent literature
    Keywords: Innovative projects,Ordered models,Innovation,Usage of ICT,Depth of ICT adoption
    Date: 2015–05–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01068225&r=knm
  3. By: Simplice Asongu (Yaoundé/Cameroun); Vanessa Tchamyou (Yaoundé/Cameroun)
    Abstract: Purpose - The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – Entrepreneurship is measured by indicators of starting, doing and ending business. The four dimensions of the World Bank’s index of KE are employed. Instrumental variable panel fixed effects are applied on a sampled of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. Findings –The following are some findings. First, creating an enabling environment for starting business can substantially boost most dimensions of KE. Second, doing business through mechanisms of trade globalisation has positive effects from sectors that are not ICT and High-tech oriented. Third, the time required to end business has negative effects on KE. Practical implications – Our findings confirm the narrative that the technology in African countries at the moment may be more imitative and adaptive for reverse-engineering in ICTs and high-tech products. Given the massive consumption of ICT and high-tech commodities in Africa, the continent has to start thinking of how to participate in the global value chain of producing what it consumes. Originality/value – This paper has a twofold motivation. First, given the ambitions of African countries of moving towards knowledge based economies, the line of inquiry is timely. Second, investigating the nexus may have substantial poverty mitigation and sustainable development implications. These entail inter alia: the development of technology with value-added services; enhancement of existing agricultural practices; promotion of conditions that are essential for competitiveness and adjustment of globalization challenges.
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Economy; Development; Africa
    JEL: L59 O10 O30 O20 O55
    Date: 2015–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:agd:wpaper:15/044&r=knm
  4. By: Lucas Bretschger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Filippo Lechthaler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Sebastian Rausch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Lin Zhang (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
    Abstract: This paper examines the effects of knowledge diffusion on growth and costs of climate policy. We develop a general equilibrium model with endogenous growth which represents knowledge diffusion between sectors and regions. Knowledge diffusion depends on accessibility and absorptive capacity which we estimate econometrically using patent and citation data. Knowledge diffusion leads to a “greening” of economies boosting productivity of “clean” carbon-extensive sectors. Knowledge diffusion lowers the costs of global climate policy by about 90% for emerging countries (China) and 20% for developed regions (Europe and USA), depending on the substitutability between different knowledge types.
    Keywords: Technological Change: Choices and Consequences, Environment and Growth,Technological Innovation, Computable General Equilibrium Models
    JEL: O33 O44 Q55 C68
    Date: 2015–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eth:wpswif:15-226&r=knm
  5. By: Alberto Galasso; Mark Schankerman
    Abstract: This paper studies the causal impact of patents on subsequent innovation by the patent holder. The analysis is based on court invalidation of patents by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and exploits the random allocation of judges to control for the endogeneity of the judicial decision. Patent invalidation leads to a 50 percent decrease in patenting by the patent holder, on average, but the impact depends critically on characteristics of the patentee and the competitive environment. The effect is entirely driven by small innovative firms in technology fields where they face many large incumbents. Invalidation of patents held by large firms does not change the intensity of their innovation but shifts the technological direction of their subsequent patenting.
    JEL: K41 L24 O31 O32 O34
    Date: 2015–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:21769&r=knm
  6. By: Thomas Brenner (Department of Geography, Philipps Universitaet Marburg); Marco Capasso (School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University); Matthias Duschl (Department of Geography, Philipps Universitaet Marburg); Koen Frenken (Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University and CIRCLE, Lund University); Tania Treibich (School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University and OFCE and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
    Abstract: This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in Knowledge- Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, we are able to estimate a structural vector auto- regressive model in which the causal directions between KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. One main finding holds that although regional growth has a negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term posi- tive effect on the whole regional economy. This result confirms the claim that KIBS can play a key role in regional policies. Distinguishing between financial and non- financial KIBS, we find that financial KIBS have a procyclical effect on regional growth underlining the potential de-stabilizing effect of a large financial sector.
    Keywords: Employment Growth, growth spillovers, KIBS, industrial dynamics, financial geography
    JEL: C53 O33 R10
    Date: 2015–12–16
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pum:wpaper:2015-04&r=knm
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