Synopses & Reviews
This volume analyses some of the major and current trends and challenges in the "new economy" from the point of view of technical innovation and competence building.It brings together the leading European expertise on different topics in this field.The contributors to this volume share the belief that knowledge is a fundamental component of economic growth and welfare. However, the ways in which knowledge is transmited and distributed among economic agents requires shaping by public policies.The individual chapters report on the most significant policies adopted and asses them in the light of the European experience in comparison with the United States and Japan.
Review
"[This book] take[s] as [its] central task the question of the ability of European national systems to 'learn' in a period marked by globalization." --Administrative Science Quarterly.
"Leading European exeprts analyze the major and current trends and policy int he 'new economy' from the point of view of technical innovations and competence building."--Business Horizons
About the Author
Daniele Archibugi is a technological director at the Italian National Research Council and a commissioner in the Authority for Public Services, Rome City Council. He has written extensively on the globalization of technology, the measurement of innovation, and the impact of innovation on economic performance. Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor of Economics at the Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University. He was Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1992-5. Since 1995 he has been Research Manager for the nationwide Danish network DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics).
Table of Contents
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List of contributors
Introduction: Europe and the Learning Economy
Part I. Europe in global competition
1. The New Economy: A European Perspective, Luc Soete
2. Europe at the Crossroads: The Challenge from Innovation-based Growth, Jan Fagerberg
Part II. New trends in firm organization, competition, and co-operation
3. The Production of Technological Knowledge: New Issues in a Learning Economy, Patrick Cohendet and Pierre-Benoît Joly
4. Universities in the Learning Economy: Balancing Institutional Integrity with Organizational Diversity, Pedro Conceição and Manuel Heitor
5. A New Role for Business Services in Economic Growth, Mark Tomlinson
Part III. The globalizing innovation process
6. The Globalization of Technology and National Policies, Daniele Archibugi and Simona Iammarino
7. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Inter-firm Technology Agreements in the Global Learning Economy, Lynn K. Mytelka
Part IV. New challenges in Europe: inequality, sustainability, and organizational innovation
8. The Learning Economy and International Inequality, Chris Freeman
9. Social Exclusion in the Learning Economy, Gerd Schienstock
10. Industrial Innovation and Sustainability: Conflicts and Coherence, Frieder Meyer-Krahmer
11. Organizational Innovation in European Firms: A Critical Overview of the Survey Evidence, Benjamin Coriat
Part V. Innovation policy in the new context
12. Innovation Policy--A Systemic Approach, Charles Edquist
13. The Need for New Perspectives in European Commission Innovation Policy, Margaret Sharp
14. Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-based Economy--Can Theory Guide Policy Making?, Jens Nyholm et al.
15. Innovation Policy in the Globalizing Learning Economy, Bengt-Åke Lundvall
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