Creating scientific knowledge : the role of public and private innovation / Albert N. Link (professor emeritus and former Virginia Batte Phillips Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Link, Albert N., author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Advancing research in technology and innovation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge management.

Technological innovations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This fascinating book explores the role of public and private external innovation in enhancing the creation of scientific knowledge. Albert Link explores how external knowledge innovation leads to the creation of scientific knowledge, which in turn results in the spillover of scientific knowledge into society. Link evaluates empirical information from knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms as well as smaller firms that received research funding through small business innovation research programs. He compares and contrasts the two, analyzing key topics including commercialization, patenting, scientific publishing, university knowledge innovation and human and technical capital. Drawing on cluster theory, the book highlights the evolutionary nature of knowledge sources and concepts. It calls for future research to address the economics of knowledge, and to develop a more complete model of its generation as a circular process, achieved through the recombination of existing knowledge items. Scholars and students of economics, innovation studies, technology policy and public policy will benefit from this book's insights. Creating Scientific Knowledge is also an essential read for global policy makers interested in how the spillover of scientific knowledge can benefit society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword

1. Introduction to creating scientific knowledge

2. The AEGIS project and AEGIS data

3. Knowledge innovation and scientific knowledge in KIE firms

4. The SBIR program and SBIR data

5. Knowledge innovation and scientific knowledge in SBIR firms

6. Comparing knowledge innovation: KIE firms and SBIR firms

7. Completing the paradigm: Commercialization, patenting, and scientific publishing

8. University activity: A knowledge innovation

9. University-based knowledge innovation: Human capital and technical capital

10. Human capital at the federal agency level

11. Concluding observations to creating scientific knowledge

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035345458 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.