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Knowledge-intensive business services in the new mode of knowledge production

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The new mode of knowledge production is seen as a distinct form of economic organisation used for exchanging and creating knowledge. The emphasis is laid on the role of business services in innovative networks as carriers of knowledge and intermediates between science (knowledge creator) and their customers (knowledge user). The empirical analysis shows that knowledge-intensive business services are able to make existing knowledge useful for, their customers, improving the customer's performance and productivity and contributing to technological and structural change.

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    Hipp, C. Knowledge-intensive business services in the new mode of knowledge production. AI & Soc 13, 88–106 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205260

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