The explicit economics of knowledge codification and tacitness
重新审视了经济学家对默会知识和编码概念的使用,提出了更连贯的概念重构,为研究知识生产与分配活动提供新框架,有助于指导科学、技术创新和长期经济增长的公共政策。
This paper attempts a greater precision and clarity of understanding concerning the nature and economic significance of knowledge and its variegated forms by presenting 'the skeptical economist's guide to 'tacit knowledge''. It critically reconsiders the ways in which the concepts of tacitness and codification have come to be employed by economists and develops a more coherent re-conceptualization of these aspects of knowledge production and distribution activities. It seeks also to show that a proposed alternative framework for the study of knowledge codification activities offers a more useful guide for further research directed to informing public policies for science, technological innovation and long-run economic growth.