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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2026–09–07
six papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Bergeaud, Antonin; Aghion, Philippe; Gigout-Magiorani, Timothée; Lequien, Matthieu; Melitz, Marc J |
| Abstract: | We examine the effect of entry by French firms into a new export market on the dynamics of their patents’ citations received from that destination. Applying a difference-in-differences identification strategy with a staggered treatment design, we show that: (i) entering a new foreign market has a significant impact on the long-run flow of citations; (ii) the impact is mostly driven by the extensive margin; (iii) inventors in destination countries patent mostly in products that do not directly compete with those of the exporting firm; (iv) the spillover intensity decreases with the technological distance between the exporting firm and the destination. |
| Date: | 2024–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:19260 |
| By: | Jeannerat, Hugues; Butzin, Anna; Carvalho, Luís; Manniche, Jesper |
| Abstract: | Wissen ist nicht nur Voraussetzung, sondern Bestandteil gesellschaftlicher Transformation. Transformation entsteht durch die Verbindung wissenschaftlichen, praktischen und gesellschaftlichen Wissens. Knowledge for Action, Knowledge by Action und Knowledge as Action beschreiben den Prozess transformativen Lernens. Regionen werden zu Wissensräumen, in denen Orientierung, Experimentieren und institutioneller Wandel zusammenwirken. Innovationspolitik entwickelt sich damit zunehmend zu einer Politik des Lernens. |
| Keywords: | Transformatives Wissen, Innovationspolitik, Regionalentwicklung |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:iatfor:343124 |
| By: | Razak, Shazrul Ekhmar Abdul; Sevasamy, Amerul Rasshiq Muhammad Syazwi; Ayzan, Muhammad Adam Khairul; Buda, Mark |
| Abstract: | Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) has been introduced as a sustainable aquaculture system that integrates fed species, such as fish or shrimp, with extractive species, such as seaweed, mussels or crabs. This system has the potential to reduce nutrient waste, improve water quality, diversify farm income and support a more resource-efficient aquaculture sector. Despite the benefits, IMTA adoption remains relatively low among aquaculture farmers in Malaysia. This study examines aquaculture farmers’ knowledge, attitude and perception toward IMTA adoption, with emphasis on farmers in the central region of Peninsular Malaysia. A quantitative survey was conducted using a questionnaire distribution between August and October 2025. A total of 66 usable responses was obtained from aquaculture farmers. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics, index analysis and binary logistic regression. The findings show that farmers’ knowledge of IMTA was still limited, with 37.9% classified at the low knowledge level and 36.4% at the moderate level. Contrastingly, farmers showed a highly favourable attitude toward IMTA, with 84.8% classified at the high attitude level. Their perception was mostly moderate, indicating that farmers recognised the potential benefits of IMTA but remained cautious about practical implementation. In terms of adoption intention, 62.1% of respondents indicated that they intended to adopt IMTA. The logistic regression result further shows that attitude and perception were significant predictors of intention to adopt IMTA, while knowledge was not significant. The findings suggest that IMTA promotion in Malaysia should not only focus on knowledge only, but also on practical training, demonstration farms and clear technical support to improve farmers’ confidence in adopting the system. |
| Keywords: | Institutional and Behavioral Economics |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:nccc26:409063 |
| By: | Reyes Ortega, Santiago; Freeman, Kianna Rachael; Hernando Kaminsky, Pablo Daniel; Huber, Jeremias Luca; Mauro, Paolo |
| Abstract: | Venture capital is widely viewed as financing knowledge-intensive, R&D-driven startups, but owing to data constraints, this view has been based largely on high-income economies. By taking a global perspective, this paper documents that what venture capital finances differs systematically across economies, varying with institutional and business conditions rather than following a single model. Using a new cross-country dataset that harmonizes firm-level venture capital records with equity issuance data for more than 150 economies, the data shows that VC markets differ across countries not only in scale but in kind. Outside high-income countries, rather than being concentrated in knowledge intangibles, venture capital tilts–at both the sector and firm levels–toward organizational intangibles such as distribution, logistics, and payments. Highlighting the unique features of venture capital, this pattern is absent from public equity markets, where sectoral composition is far more similar across income levels. An accounting decomposition separates venture capital depth into the rate at which firms enter the market and the funding each entrant attracts, and entry accounts for the largest cross-country gaps. Moreover, the business environment is associated with VC primarily through entry, linked both to the size of the market and to the composition of what venture capital finances, the latter through entry into knowledge-intensive sectors in particular. |
| Date: | 2026–08–31 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11438 |
| By: | Hinh T. Dinh |
| Abstract: | This paper provides a structural assessment of India’s services-led development trajectory, and its integration into global value chains (GVCs) between 2012 and 2022. Applying an analytical framework that categorizes services into knowledge (KS), enabling (ES), and local (LS) sectors, the study utilizes sixteen OECD indicators to move beyond the narrative of India as a ‘services champion’ and reveal a more complex economic reality. The analysis identifies three central structural patterns, beginning with the ‘enclave’ nature of the flagship IT export sector (J62–63), which maintains productivity levels comparable to high-income benchmarks, but is shallowly linked to the domestic economy, with a labor-income share that plummeted from 26% to 11% over the decade. Second, a stark absorption arithmetic reveals a productivity-absorption tradeoff in which the most productive sectors employ the fewest workers. Consequently, with an agricultural workforce still near 248 million, IT expansion alone cannot fulfill for India the labor-reallocation function traditionally performed by manufacturing. Finally, the paper identifies a constraint-driven posture in which India’s manufacturing share has stalled at post-industrial levels (16% of GDP) despite aggressive policy interventions such as ‘Make in India’. This trajectory is framed not as a choice, but as the ‘path left available’ because of the global capital intensification of manufacturing, which has significantly weakened its labor-absorption capacity. The paper concludes that while India’s services-led path is viable, it requires a ‘Big-Push’ policy characterized by the public coordination of investments that the market alone will not align. Aggregate convergence depends on scaling knowledge services beyond IT, and upgrading the productivity of ‘absorbing’ LS through AI-enabled tools. Ultimately, India’s convergence challenge is harder than that of comparable manufacturing-led economies because services are more heterogeneous in terms of productivity and employment generation, and the country’s immense scale magnifies the difficulty of the absorption arithmetic. |
| Date: | 2026–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ocp:rpaeco:rp11_26 |
| By: | Athira, Celia |
| Abstract: | Organizational transitions that transfer operational activities from internal units to external partners depend heavily on the availability of standardized process documentation. This study examines the business process of Employee Administration (EA) Kedinasan data entry within the Employee & Organization Data Operation (EODO) unit of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, undertaken as part of the company's preparation to transfer data-entry activities to an external partner, PT Infomedia Nusantara. Using a descriptive-qualitative case study approach grounded in Business Process Management (BPM) theory, the study maps the existing (as-is) process through direct observation, documentation review, and discussion with field supervisors, and evaluates it using SWOT analysis to identify internal and external factors shaping the transition. The findings show that although the EA Kedinasan process already possesses a structured workflow supported by verification and approval checkpoints and a centralized SAP-based system, its documentation remains fragmented across multiple work instructions and lacks an integrated reference that can function effectively as a knowledge-transfer medium for an external partner. The study recommends the consolidation of Business Process diagrams, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Work Instructions, and a Playbook into a single coherent documentation package, which was implemented in part during the internship. Beyond its immediate organizational relevance, the case illustrates a broader tension in business process transitions: technically sound processes can still generate transition risk when explicit-knowledge artifacts are not consolidated for an external audience. The study contributes a practitioner-grounded account of how BPM and knowledge-transfer principles operate in a real outsourcing transition within a large Indonesian state-owned enterprise, and offers implications for organizations preparing similar administrative transfers. |
| Date: | 2026–08–14 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:p7mh3_v1 |