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Yes, because a lot of innovation comes from transferring knowledge between unrelated fields. There is a lot of benefit to cross disciplinary knowledge.
by ericd 9y ago
Yes, because a lot of innovation comes from transferring knowledge between unrelated fields. There is a lot of benefit to cross disciplinary knowledge.
- personlurking 9y agoFWIW and/or for anyone interested, here's a related Wikipedia on the subject, talking about the different types of knowledge spillovers (MAR, Porter, Jacobs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_spillover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_spillover
- ericd 9y agoSweet, I didn't realize there was a formal term for this concept, but it makes sense that economists would have tried to formalize this :-)