Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Institutions and Incentives

by Partha Dasgupta (Editor)

G. Barba Navaretti, P. Dasgupta, K.G. Mäler, D. Production and Transmission of Institutions and Economic Incentives. An Introduction.- Production of M. Patronage and Innovation in Architecture.- P. Aghion, J. Opening the Black Box of Innovation.- G. Barba Navaretti, A. R&D Inter-firm Agreements in Developing Countries. Where? Why? How?.- B. Jovanovic, Y. Research and Productivity.- R. Henderson, A.B. Jaffe, M. University Patenting Amid Changing Incentives for Commercialization.- P.A. Communication Norms and the Collective Cognitive Performance of 'Invisible Colleges'.- Transmission and Diffusion of J. Literacy and the Diffusion of Knowledge across Cultures and Times.- G. Bertola, D.C. Market Failures, Education, and Macroeconomics.- J.-F. Thisse, Y. How to Finance Education when the Labor Force is Heterogeneous?.- I. Bignamini, E. The Role of Educational Institutions in the Art From Academies to the Grand Tour.- A. Oral Transmission in Indian Classical The Gharana System.- J. R. Markusen, A. J. The International Transmission of Knowledge by Multinational Impacts on Source and Host Country Skilled Labor.- M. Blomström, A. Foreign Investment as a Vehicle for International Technology Transfer.

324 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1998

About the author

Professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (born November 17, 1942), FBA, FRS, is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Professor of Environmental and Development Economics at the University of Manchester. Research interests have covered welfare and development economics; the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; social capital; the theory of games; and the economics of malnutrition.

He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, then in India, and is the son of noted economist A.K. Dasgupta. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a psychotherapist. They have three children, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (an educational psychologist), Shamik (a philosophy professor) and Aisha (who works on reproductive health in poor countries).