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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2026–09–14
seven papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Fábio Veras Soares (IPC) |
| Keywords: | social protection; G20 Development Working Group; knowledge sharing; international development cooperation |
| Date: | 2026–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipc:idwpen:005 |
| By: | Sidharth Mallik; Waymond Rodgers |
| Abstract: | The enormous growth in datasets, both in number and size, has prompted investors to adapt to new ways for assimilating information. Normatively, the approach has been to integrate such datasets into pricing formulations and assess the performance of portfolios created thereafter. However, such approaches underestimate their influence in portfolio investments by limiting their impact to pricing only. While being theoretically valid, this results in a potential sub-optimal performance in the presence of real-life decision constraints, and a blind spot for performance attribution. We start by analysing investment decisions from a knowledge perspective, which unfurls a new structure. We then propose a FinTech process termed Knowledge Optimisation that aims to integrate the influence of knowledge components that could be related to data, models, or business units that extract information. A 3-stage process, namely, decision structure, portfolio selection, and performance assessment is designed. We present an alternative to the ex-ante Sharpe Ratio, integrating a term for knowledge units. Through scenario analysis involving portfolio investment situations, we illustrate the utility. By design, the process improves the importance of knowledge in investment decisions. |
| Date: | 2026–08 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2608.05991 |
| By: | Mutsamwira, Sam |
| Abstract: | This review synthesises the literature on university entrepreneurial ecosystems to understand their role in fostering university spin-off companies as drivers of economic development. This study adopts a systematised conceptual literature review design, employing a structured search and thematic synthesis to develop an integrative conceptual framework that positions university entrepreneurial ecosystems as a dynamic interplay between internal (e.g. university leadership, faculty) and external (e.g. government, venture capitalists) stakeholders. The framework identifies knowledge spillover and transfer as key mediating processes, and highlights intellectual property frameworks and mechanisms (e.g. university IP policy, legal system) as a critical moderator that can either enable or constrain academic entrepreneurship, and subsequently spin-off formation. Applying this lens to New Zealand, a paradoxical situation was uncovered: while home to a recognised “emerging world leading” university entrepreneurial ecosystem, there is a significant paucity of recent, system-wide academic research. Key gaps are identified, including the need for longitudinal data on spin-offs performances, and a deeper understanding of internal ecosystem dynamics like the critical imperative to integrate Mātauranga Māori (Māori traditional knowledge) into commercialisation pathways. This review provides a foundation for future empirical research and offers insights for policymakers and university leaders in New Zealand and other small, innovative economies. |
| Keywords: | University entrepreneurial ecosystems; Academic entrepreneurship; University spin-offs; Technology transfer; Knowledge spillovers; Intellectual property frameworks; Innovation systems; Research commercialisation; Stakeholder dynamics; Regional innovation; Higher education and innovation;Māori traditional knowledge; Mātauranga Māori; New Zealand innovation policy |
| JEL: | I23 I25 K11 L26 M13 O25 O3 R58 |
| Date: | 2025–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:128327 |
| By: | Talley, Vanessa M. |
| Abstract: | Social work acknowledges Black Feminist Thought as a framework and praxis, yet the profession has not established a social work framework that explicitly centers Black women’s epistemologies as foundational to education, theory, research, policy, and practice. Although social work maintains a historical commitment to social justice, person-in-environment, and human rights perspectives, dominant theories and knowledge systems continue to reflect Eurocentric assumptions regarding knowledge production and professional expertise. This article introduces Black Feminist Social Work (BFSW) as a conceptual framework that centers Black women’s individual and collective lived experiences, intellectual traditions, historical resistance, and knowledge to inform social work theory, education, research, policy, and practice. Drawing upon Black feminism, Black Feminist Thought, Womanism, Intersectionality, and the profession’s ethical commitments, the BFSW framework proposes a necessary shift from positioning Black women primarily as a population to be studied to recognizing them as producers of transformative knowledge. This article introduces four organizing principles, the Four C’s: Centering, Contextualizing, Co-Creating, and Changing, as foundational processes for Black Feminist Social Work and discusses the implications for curriculum development, clinical practice, research methodologies, policy advocacy, and future scholarship. Rather than positioning Black Feminist Social Work as an alternative specialization, this framework argues that centering Black women’s knowledge expands the social work profession’s capacity to pursue equity, liberation, and social transformation. |
| Date: | 2026–08–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:khn9f_v1 |
| By: | Patrick A. Imam; Jonathan R. W. Temple |
| Abstract: | Will artificial intelligence (AI) help poorer countries catch up? This paper argues that the answer depends less on access to AI than on the capacity to use new knowledge productively. We show that countries have narrowed gaps in capital and schooling more readily than gaps in productivity. Technology can diffuse widely without producing productivity convergence. Measured human capital explains only a modest share of productivity differences in levels, but is associated with sharply different mobility regimes. The estimated transition processes imply an expected time to exit the lowest-productivity state of about 65 years for economies below the estimated human-capital threshold, compared with about 25 years for those above it. This reconciles development accounting with the view of human capital as absorptive capacity. If AI mainly augments skilled workers and capable firms, it may reinforce existing gaps. If it lowers the costs of learning, adaptation, and implementation in weaker-capability economies, it could instead promote convergence. The Intelligence Divide is therefore not simply about access to AI, but about the capacity to turn knowledge into productivity. |
| Keywords: | relative development; productivity mobility; human capital; technology diffusion; artificial intelligence; convergence; absorptive capacity |
| Date: | 2026–09–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2026/190 |
| By: | Loraine Kennedy (CESAH - Centre d'études sud asiatiques et himalayennes - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Ram Mohan Chitta |
| Abstract: | This chapter examines the role of expertise and knowledge in policymaking and delivery in the recently formed state of Telangana in South India. In the context of rescaled state space and political authority, the problem is framed as one of mediation between different types of knowledge and interests in pursuit of a political settlement. This question was explored through a comparative analysis of two distinct policy arenas, welfare housing and urban development, with a focus on the capital city Hyderabad. Both arenas relied to a degree on expertise external to government, but this was much more explicit in the case of urban development policies, where expert bodies remained nonetheless subordinate to political imperatives and authority. For welfare housing, policy design and implementation were left entirely with the government, but the evidence suggested a narrowing of the epistemic community shaping policy. |
| Keywords: | urban development, political settlement, dignity housing, Hyderabad, Telangana, hybrid consulting organizations |
| Date: | 2025–06–17 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05542270 |
| By: | Kuusi, Tero; Lähdemäki, Sakari |
| Abstract: | Abstract We study Europe’s post-2008 productivity slowdown using novel total factor productivity (TFP) measures that follow production beyond individual industries in global value chains (GVCs). We collect a newset of stylized facts: (1) the slowdown is broad-based, with productivity growth weakening both in final-producer industries and in upstream industries; (2) the staggered entry into force of bilateral investment treaties with China is followed by higher value-chain TFP and greater business-intangible investment; while (3) the gains associated with technology intangibles are weak. We use these facts to discipline a stylized two-region general-equilibrium model with business capabilities, technology-related knowledge, and cross-border knowledge spillovers. The calibration supports a two-stage interpretation of Europe’s experience: (1) sizeable initial integration gains because accumulated business capabilities convert market access into productivity, and (2) later losses when technology improvements are converted into productivity more effectively elsewhere. |
| Keywords: | Global value chains, Intangibles, Productivity, Globalization |
| JEL: | F60 O47 L16 O14 E22 |
| Date: | 2026–09–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rif:wpaper:146 |