The reasons are not clear, but the collapse was most likely a result of the Moche's inability to cope with a hostile and perhaps changing environment, including the failure of their technology, knowledge and institutions to help them overcome those challenges.
In this regard, Bergek et al. [26, 33] define the three main elements of technological innovation systems as actors, including firms, users, suppliers, investors and other organisations; networks, defined as the channels for the transfer of tacit and explicit knowledge; and institutions, the entities that govern and dictate the environment within which all actors operate.
A collection of his past articles on real options and foreign investment and knowledge of the firm was published by Oxford University Press in 2008 under the title Knowledge, Options, and Institutions.
In this paper, we describe the knowledge and policy disconnect exposed by Sandy between what we submit are four key elements of adaptive capacity: resources, institutions, knowledge and innovation of technology.
He is the author or editor of six books, includingThe Global Internet Economy (MIT Press, 2003) and Knowledge, Options, and Institutions.
A proven approach for one circumstance may fail miserably a few hundred kilometers away if the transposition is attempted in a 'cookie cutter' fashion, without respecting local knowledge, dynamics and institutions.
This paper discusses, first, the properties of scientific and technological knowledge and the institutions supporting its generation and its economic applications.
The book can be characterized as a social scientific analysis of range science - arguing, in general, that scientific knowledge and management institutions are co-produced within a broader political-economic context.
As that initial burst of early 1990s cyber culture faded away, new media continued to encounter and come up against organized society, in the form of corporations, governments, knowledge and educational institutions, and politics.
This work should include local knowledge and informal institutions (e.g., cultural sharing networks) to best understand these concepts in Aboriginal communities.
In these actor-scenarios, other people, technologies, knowledges, artifacts and institutions, among other things, are assigned roles as characters in a 'fictitious script' about the future [ 38].
