But knowledge flows both ways.
What is so important about knowledge flows?
Sadly, most of the knowledge flows in one ear and leaks through the other as I struggle to stop myself melting.
So I checked newspaper listings, library schedules and campus calendars and discovered that free knowledge flows like diner coffee: just hold out your cup.
Instead of drawing on a few, stable, reliable sources of information, managers today must tap into multiple, fast-moving, informal knowledge flows.
The future belongs to those who promote richer and ever more diverse knowledge flows and develop the institutions and practices required to harness them.
Our results suggest that, to be realized, knowledge flows to industry may require more face-to-face interaction than those to academics.Emphasis mine.
I would argue that Command China, in its efforts to suppress, curtail and channel knowledge flows into politically acceptable domains that will indefinitely sustain the control of the Communist Party — i.e., censoring Google — is increasingly at odds with Network China, which is thriving by participating in global knowledge flows.
"The higher up in the organization knowledge flows, the easier it is for the prosecution to make a case against the entity," said Michael Zeldin, a former Justice Department official and a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington.
These advantages include ready access to a huge market; large-scale inflows of foreign direct investment, together with the knowledge flows that such investments entail; and a steady supply of skilled and unskilled foreign labor.
Figure 3 Lack of knowledge flows.
