The Globalizing Learning Economy [Paperback]

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.

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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-Beno??t Joly
4. Universities in the Learning Economy: Balancing Institutional Integrity with Organizational Diversity,Pedro Concei????o 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 ExclusionlC�