Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31820 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 0709
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
Recent advances in the economics of knowledge highlight the key role of pecuniary knowledge externalities in explaining the system dynamics of total factor productivity growth. When non-exhaustible technological knowledge is an input both in the production of new goods and of further knowledge, and the acquisition of external knowledge, as a non-disposable input in the production of new knowledge, is not free, pecuniary externalities, as opposed to technological externalities, provide an important clue to understanding the key role of knowledge governance mechanisms in assessing the rate of growth of total factor productivity and economic systems at large. The negative effects upon appropriability limit the advantages of agglomeration.
Subjects: 
TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
PECUNIARY EXTERNALITIES
KNOWLEDGE GOVERNANCE
KNOWLEDGE APPROPRIABILITY
JEL: 
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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