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Modeling creation vs. diffusion of structured knowledge

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  • Nicolas Carayol

    (Lirhe-Cnrs, University of Toulouse 1, 31 042 Toulouse Cedex, France)

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The paper is mainly dealing with the dilemma between knowledge creation incentives and knowledge diffusion. Knowledge is modeled as a structure, which is expanding through agents' creation behaviors, and becomes "locally" available to other agents once it is disclosed. An agent taken randomly at each period of the discrete time is choosing between the acquisition of an accessible piece of knowledge and the creation of one. Knowledge value being a decreasing function of the number of agents sharing it, a higher (exogenous and tunable) rate of disclosure decreases the incentives to create (in increasing the diffusion speed). Using simulations, we show that there is, for each set of values of the different parameters, a non null optimal rate of disclosure (maximizing the collective performances of the set of agents) and discuss the effect of some of the structural parameters on it.

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  • Nicolas Carayol, 2000. "Modeling creation vs. diffusion of structured knowledge," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(01n04), pages 353-368.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:03:y:2000:i:01n04:n:s021952590000025x
    DOI: 10.1142/S021952590000025X
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    1. Carayol, Nicolas & Dalle, Jean-Michel, 2007. "Sequential problem choice and the reward system in Open Science," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 167-191, June.
    2. Nicolas Carayol & Jean-Michel Dalle, 2003. "The ‘problem of problem choice’: A model of sequential knowledge production within scientific communities cientific communities," Working Papers of BETA 2003-12, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.

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