... is necessary for knowledge accumulation. Perhaps because some representations suggest trivial relationships, replication and triangulation efforts might be evaluated as less valuable than novel and exciting (i.e. statistically significant) results. In other words, as with self-correction and falsification...

... in the Journal of Consumer Research, a reanalysis of two published datasets, and Monte Carlo simulations support the conclusions and recommendations. mediation analysis causal inference experiment bias knowledge accumulation Mediation analysis is done to make causal inferences about the influence...

... and to improve understanding of the process of knowledge accumulation. Nine communities inhabited by three different ethnic groups in two different areas were studied. Overall, 290 children 6–13 years old were interviewed. Data gathering was divided into: semi-structured interviews; informal walks in the forest...

...This chapter focuses on the links among public capital, knowledge accumulation, and economic growth. It emphasizes the view, in line with the empirical evidence, that knowledge accumulation may depend critically on access to public capital. It also considers the possibility of a trade-off between...

... knowledge accumulation patent law harmonization TRIPS flexibilities The key feature of the historical process of economic development is the “great transformation” (Polanyi, 1944 ) whereby the traditional organization of economic activities gives way to the systematic adoption and development of new...

... globalization heterogeneity selection shock South America Taiwan political economy knowledge accumulation industrial transformation IPR policies technological learning macro policies corporate behavior There was a time when ‘industrial policies’, for both developed and developing countries, were bad...

... and implementation strategies. The problem for knowledge accumulation stems not from the fact that these decisions are good or bad, right or wrong, but simply from the fact that they are different across the studies whose results we seek to synthesize. If the researchers could somehow have gotten together prior...

... and private sectors affects innovation. Other chapters examine the practice of open research and how the diffusion of information technology influences the economics of knowledge accumulation....

... Economy This chapter discusses the association between knowledge-based specialization and economic growth. By considering the link between economic growth and knowledge accumulation, the chapter views knowledge itself as a form of capital. The stock of knowledge at the disposal of any society is an often...

... 22.23 23.81 39.13 39.31 Adj R-square 6.90 17.13 17.47 30.59 30.80 Note: ***, p 〈 0.01; **, p 〈 0.05; *, p 〈 0.10; standard errors in parentheses. This study investigates the technological knowledge accumulation pattern of the world’s largest...

...Table 1 Select Examples of Knowledge Accumulation Through Natural Experiments Dimension of Knowledge Accumulation Empirical Strategy Substantive Focus Example studies Generalizability (effects in varied populations and contexts) (1) Similar treatment, similar outcome...