ABSTRACT
Technological knowledge is an interactive and collective activity because it is the result of the intentional interaction and participation of a variety of learning agents, embedded into geographic and professional pools of knowledge commons and because of the intrinsic indivisibility of technological knowledge. Interaction is requested in order to acquire and implement external knowledge, an essential input for the generation of new knowledge. The analysis of the indivisibility of technological knowledge in this context makes it possible to achieve significant progress. The new attention to and analysis of the notion of indivisibility provides a relevant contribution to understanding the complementarity and interactivity of knowledge generation and knowledge dissemination and hence the key role of the mechanisms of knowledge governance at play in an economic system.
