Abstracts

Paul A. David and Dominique Foray, An introduction to the economy of the knowledge society Armand Hatchuel, Pascal Le Masson and Benoît Weil, From knowledge management to design‐oriented organisations Sven Ove Hansson, Uncertainties in the knowledge society Maryann P. Feldman, The Internet revolution and the geography of innovation Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon, The involvement of patients' associations in research Alice Lam, Alternative societal models of learning and innovation in the knowledge economy Maurice Cassier, Private property, collective property, and public property in the age of genomics Alvaro Zerda‐Sarmiento and Clemente Forero‐Pineda, Intellectual property rights over ethnic communities' knowledge Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, and Alfonso Gambardella, Markets for technology in the knowledge economy Clemente Forero‐Pineda and Hernán Jaramillo‐Salazar, The access of researchers from developing countries to international science and technology W. Edward Steinmueller, Knowledge‐based economies and information and communication technologies Udaya Wagle, Rethinking poverty: definition and measurement