Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50677 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Manchester Business School Working Paper No. 588
Publisher: 
The University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, Manchester
Abstract: 
Production' and 'transfer' of knowledge, and the role of institutions, are two major conceptual tenets of Innovation Systems (IS) literature, which flourished in the evolutionary stream of economics since the eighties of last century. Building on results of different disciplines, the paper critically discusses 'knowledge' and 'institution' concepts used in that literature and presents alternative meanings supported by emergentist ontology of persons, social and cultural phenomena. The paper discusses how such conceptual framework matters for the analysis of innovation processes and what are its policy implications.
Subjects: 
innovation systems
knowledge
institutions
evolutionary economics
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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