Is knowledge an economic good? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge has moved to the core of economic analysis. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge in the focus of attention, as a key economic issue.

1. Production and Transmission of Knowledge: Institutions and Economic Incentives. An Introduction.- I: Production of Knowledge.- 2. Patronage and Innovation in Architecture.- 3. Opening the Black Box of Innovation.- 4. R&D Inter-firm Agreements in Developing Countries. Where? Why? How?.- 5. Research and Productivity.- 6. University Patenting Amid Changing Incentives for Commercialization.- 7. Communication Norms and the Collective Cognitive Performance of “Invisible Colleges”.- II: Transmission and Diffusion of Knowledge.- 8. Literacy and the Diffusion of Knowledge across Cultures and Times.- 9. Market Failures, Education, and Macroeconomics.- 10. How to Finance Education when the Labor Force is Heterogeneous?.- 11. The Role of Educational Institutions in the Art Sector: From Academies to the Grand Tour.- 12. Oral Transmission in Indian Classical Music: The Gharana System.- 13. The International Transmission of Knowledge by Multinational Firms: Impacts on Source and Host Country Skilled Labor.- 14. Foreign Investment as a Vehicle for International Technology Transfer.

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