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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"knowledge market"”.
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Two-sided user generated content platforms on the Internet : optimal strategies for growth
… as highlighted by the recent emergence of two knowledge markets connecting user submitted questions with user generated answers. An experiment with marketing messages was run on Google to determine which side of a knowledge market offered stronger benefits. Advertising performed poorly on both …
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Internationalising small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) a learning approach
… and examines: i. types and sources of new knowledge acquired by firms, ii. assimilation of new knowledge within firms, iii. exploitation of new capabilities gained and iv. outcomes of the new knowledge and learning. This research adopts a qualitative approach based on 12 longitudinal case …
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Driving equitable demand : early lessons from the BetterBuildings Program to access 'hard-to-reach' communities for energy efficiency building improvements
… grantees to transform regional energy efficiency markets while accessing households occupied by people of many incomes and ethnicities. This thesis assesses how BetterBuildings programs may access hard-to-reach households by conducting a survey of programs nationally, follow-up interviews, and a …
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Towards a Sustainable Knowledge Sharing Environment for Online Research Communities
Sustainability of online knowledge-sharing communities is a major challenge at the present time. Many approaches to knowledge-sharing communities have suffered from the lack of active user participation. To explore this problem it is necessary to study both social and technical issues. In this …
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Modeling the successes and failures of content-based platforms
… Stack Exchange through the economic lens of a ""market"". We discover a curious phenomenon: in many Stack Exchange sites, platform success measures, such as the percentage of the answered questions, decline with an increase in the number of users. In the second study, we identify the causal …