Handbook on the knowledge economy This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social cooperative cultural creative ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for knowledge based economies; and knowledge management Knowledge : concepts policy implementation David Rooney Greg Hearn and Abraham Ninan The material mental historical and social character of knowledge David Rooney and Ursula Schneider Wisdom ethics and the postmodern organization Bernard McKenna Risk and knowledge Joost van Loon Social epistemology : preserving the integrity of knowledge about knowledge Steve Fuller Knowledge and social capital Hitendra Pillay Knowledge and cultural capital Stuart Cunningham The organization of creativity in knowledge economies : exploring strategic issues Paul Jeffcutt Analysing policy values in a knowledge economy Phil Graham Knowledge issues and policy in the operation of industrial clusters Abraham Ninan Intellectual property rights in the knowledge economy Peter Drahos Information sharing Donald M. Lamberton Collaboration and the network form of organizaton in the new knowledge based economy Thomas Mandeville Exploring the information space : a strategic perspective on information systems Max Boisot Tacit knowledge versus explicit knowledge approaches to knowledge management practice Ron Sanchez Knowledge and social identity Thomas Keenan Managing creativity in the knowledge economy Mark Banks Inesperience and inefficiency in information transactions : making the most of management consultants Stuart Macdonald The knowledge worker : a metaphor in search. of a meaning Richard Joseph How to be productive in the knowledge economy : the case of ICTs Greg Hearn and Thomas Mandeville Digital rights management (DRM) : managing digital rights for open access Brian Fitzgerald and Jason Reid