The Globalizing Learning Economy - Oxford University Press

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Résumé :
This volume analyses some of the major current trends and policy 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.

Together the authors give a picture of the most dramatic new challenges in a world where competition is becoming increasingly knowledge-based and global. Why has the US economy been able to realise a so-called new economy based on the effective exploitation of information technology while Europe still suffers from chronic high rates of unemployment? How is it that contemporary economic systems have become more knowledge-intensive but social inequality, both within and across countries, is increasing?

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 transmitted and distributed among economic agents requires shaping by public policies. The individual chapters report on the most significant policies adopted and assess them in the light of the European experience in comparison with the United States and Japan....

Biographie:
Daniele Archibugi is a technological director at the Italian National Research Council. He has written extensively on the globalization of technology, the measurement of innovation, and the impact of innovation on economic performance.

Bengt-?ke 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).

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Sommaire:

• Introduction: Europe and the Learning Economy


• Part One: Europe in Global Competition


• 1: Luc Soete: The New Economy: A European Perspective


• 2: Jan Fagerberg: Europe at the Crossroads: The Challenge from Innovation-Based Growth


• Part Two: New Trends in Firm Organization, Competition, and Co-operation


• 3: Patrick Cohendet and Pierre-Beno?t Joly: The Production of Technological Knowledge: New Issues in a Learning Economy


• 4: Pedro Concei??o and Manuel Heitor: Universities in the Learning Economy: Balancing Institutional Integrity with Organizational Diversity


• 5: Mark Tomlinson: A New Role for Business Services in Economic Growth


• Part Three: The Globalizing Innovation Process


• 6: Daniele Archibugi and Simona Iammarino: The Globalization of Technology and National Policies


• 7: Lynn K. Mytelka: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Inter-firm Technology Agreements in the Global Learning Economy


• Part Four: New Challenges in Europe: Inequality, Sustainability, and Organizational Innovation


• 8: Chris Freeman: The Learning Economy and International Inequality


• 9: Gerd Schienstock: Social Exclusion in the Learning Economy


• 10: Frieder Meyer-Krahmer: Industrial Innovation and Sustainability: Conflicts and Coherence


• 11: Benjamin Coriat: Organizational Innovation in European Firms: A Critical Overview of the Survey Evidence


• Part Five: Innovation Policy in the New Context


• 12: Charles Edquist: Innovation Policy: A Systemic Approach


• 13: Margaret Sharp: The Need for New Perspectives in European Commission Innovation Policy


• 14: Jens Nyholm, Lars Normann, Clauss Frelle-Petersen, Matk Riis, and Peter Torstensen: Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Can Theory Guide Policy Making?


• 15: Bengt-?ke Lundvall: Innovation Policy in the Globalizing Learning Economy