Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change [Hardcover]

How well suited are the institutions of a region, nation or international regime to the task of coping with the dramatic changes currently underway in the global economy? This volume examines this issue.List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors Innovations and Social Learning: An Introduction; D.A.Wolfe & M.S.Gertler Farms, Phones and Learning in the Trade Regime; R.Wolfe Institutional Learning in International Financial Regimes; T.Porter Institutional Learning in Standards Setting; L.Salter Locational Tournaments, Strategic Partnerships and the State; L.Mytelka Technology, Culture and Social Learning: Regional and National Institutions of Governance; M.S.Gertler Institutions of the Learning Economy; M.Storper The Learning Region; R.Florida Regional Innovation Systems and Regional Competitiveness; P.Cooke Regions as Laboratories: The Rise of Regional Experimentation in Europe; D.Henderson & K.Morgan Negotiating Order: Sectoral Polices and Social Learning in Ontario; D.A.Wolfe IndexPHILIP COOKE Professor of Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, CardiffRICHARD FLORIDA H. John Heinz III Professor of Regional Economic Development, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDYLAN HENDERSON Research Associate, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff UniversityKEVIN MORGAN Professor of European Regional Development, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff UniversityLYNN K. MYTELKA Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University and Director, Institute for New Technologies, United Nations UniversityTONY PORTER Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster UniversityLIORA SALTER Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, and of Environment Studies, York UniversityMICHAEL STORPER Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles and Professor of Human and Social Sciences, Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?eROBERT WOLFE Professor of Policlc&