The theoretical and policy implications of knowledge codification

The purpose of the following contribution is to present the main consequences in terms of policy of firms and governments that emerged from the theoretical and empirical work achieved under the TIPIK project. In a first part, the introduction is devoted to a summing-up of the main theoretical dimensions used in TIPIK, that led in particular to a special issue of Industrial and Corporate Change (June 2000). Then, the discussion envisages the main consequences of the theoretical debate in terms of policy issues and addresses the new perspectives of a knowledge oriented policy of firms and governments. Finally, we expose a selected series of policy implications, that are derived from the empirical studies presented in this special issue. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.