Comments for My PhD

Comment on Knowledge spillover by music

music — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:08:45 +0000

What do you mean ?

Comment on Theory of dynamic competition by Alinestra

Alinestra — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:57:01 +0000

Dynamic Competition (the economic theory not the biochemical one) doesn’t have a page at Wikipedia. I’m not doing a PhD but am interested in Schumpeter’s theory of Creative Destruction, which is on Wikipedia.

Thank you for your definition of Dynamic Competition. It would be cool if you edited Wikipedia with what is on this page here as it is quite helpful.

Comment on Theory of dynamic competition by Kate Morrison

Kate Morrison — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:10:44 +0000

…by which I mean to suggest that George Shackle and Brian Loasby are worth reading on economic growth as a growth of knowledge process:

Shackle, G.L.S.(1972). Epistemics & Economics: A Critique of Economic Doctrines. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-558-0

Loasby, B. (1999). Knowledge, institutions and evolution in economics. London: Routledge

Comment on Theory of dynamic competition by Kate Morrison

Kate Morrison — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:28:43 +0000

JH, you may have come across these already…

Potts on Evolutionary Economics in Policy, and
Potts, J. ‘Knowledge and Markets’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 11 (2001), pp. 413–31

Comment on Theory of dynamic competition by Terje (Say Tay-a)

Terje (Say Tay-a) — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:45:09 +0000

My better half is finishing her PHD shortly. Her area of research is in knowledge acquisition although it is from a computer science perspective not an economists perspective. Essentially it explores the time required to transfer knowledge from one entity to another. In effect her paper explores the time cost associated with knowledge acquisition.

Contrary to what you imply above there is a risk in reading other peoples R&D. And that is that they may have got it wrong or they may not have fully qualified the circumstances in which the knowledge is applicable or you may read it but not understand it correctly. Also a lot of the knowledge derived from R&D is tacit knowledge and will not transfer easily even if the owners of the knowledge write lots of papers and are determined to transfer their knowledge. This is a big part of why companies buy other companies rather than just copy their ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

Also worth exploring from managment theory is the concept encapsulated in the Johari Window metaphor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_Window

In the current political debate about apprenticeships and vocational knowledge a lot of this has real world implications. An apprentice in say carpentary needs to hang around a carpenter for several years in order to absorb the tacit knowledge that is not easily transfered through formal education.

Comment on Knowledge v human capital by c8to

c8to — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:51:44 +0000

correct…as far as growth caused by knowledge…which is the prime cause of growth…

but growth can actually happen independant of knowledge creation.

a growing population might lead to growth in per capita income with no new knowledge as economies of scale kick in without any change in human knowledge…this however is a trivial and probably uninteresting effect…

Comment on Some background reading by meika

meika — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:14:26 +0000

So have you read Charles Stross' Accelerando, its a fabulists attack on the Austrians, and a free download.

Comment on Theory of dynamic competition by John Humphreys

John Humphreys — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:46:53 +0000

Recommended by Kate Morrison (Volterra Pacific): Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-Term Economic Growth, by Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw, and Clifford T. Bekar.