|
EconStor >
Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Jena >
Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25587
|
| | |
| Title: | | Knowledge and its economic characteristics: a conceptual clarification  |
| Authors: | | Witt, Ulrich Brökel, Tom Brenner, Thomas |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2007,013 |
| Abstract: | | This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge technology, i.e. on how knowledge can be acquired, stored, used, and communicated. The different characteristics and the relationships between them are shown to correspond to different specifications of the technology, specifications that are not always made explicit in the literature. |
| Subjects: | | knowledge knowledge technology tacitness ouvertness public goods intellectual property rights |
| JEL: | | D83 O31 O34 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
|
| Files in This Item:
| |
|
| No. of Downloads:
| |
| last Month |
last 3 Month |
total |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| | |
Download bibliographical data as:
BibTeX
|
| |
Share on:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25587
|
Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|