Architectures of Knowledge seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in ecnomics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the book assembles together the most advanced research in different disciplines: economics, science and technology studies, cognitive sciences (including situated and distributed cognition), economic geography, and managment science. Placing the concept of community at the very centre of the argument, the book arrives at an understanding of the way in which new pieces of knowlege are created and mobilised in economic activities. INDICE 1 Placing Knowledge 2 Economics of Knowledge Reconsidered 3 The Firm as a Locus of Competence Building 4 Practices of Knowing 5 Spaces of Knowing 6 Communities and Governance of Knowledge 7 Public Policy Implications