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Dear Colleagues, I would welcome your interest in contributing to a forthcoming Special Issue of the International Journal of Public Policy for which I have been asked to act as Guest Editor. The IJPP is a major outlet for publishing policy-relevant and academically rigorous research. The text below offers part of the rationale for the selected theme. The link further down has information on a suggested 'subject coverage', 'notes for prospective authors' and 'important dates'. The date for sending through expressions of interest was originally set for the end of January. But this invitation clearly supersedes that. "The knowledge economy may be viewed as an entity or group of entities whose aim and purpose is to generate and manage the creation of knowledge; in extremity, this process may be seen to develop in perpetuity and as an end in itself. However, a knowledge economy may also be viewed as an entity whose aim is to contribute to knowledge creation with quite specific economic and/or social outcomes. Seen in this way, the development of the knowledge economy is likely to result in clear and unambiguous benefits to those who participate with it. The purpose of this Special Issue is to encourage research on the impact of the development of the knowledge economy (viewed as the second approach described above) within the relatively more prosperous northern economies on those within the relatively less prosperous south." Here is the link I mentioned: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1476 Looking forward to answering any questions you may have, but please try and not reply to the whole list as that tends to frustrate others. best wishes, Parviz Dabir-Alai ([log in to unmask])