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Author:   Daniele Archibugi (, Technological Director, National Research Council, Rome) ,  Bengt-Åke Lundvall (, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.457kg
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9780199258178

ISBN 10:   0199258171
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   03 October 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Daniele Archibugi and Bengt-Åke Lundvall: 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-Benoît Joly: The Production of Technological Knowledge: New Issues in a Learning Economy 4: Pedro Conceição 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-Åke Lundvall: Innovation Policy in the Globalizing Learning Economy

Reviews

... most chapters included in this volume constitute brilliant pieces of academic work that should be strongly recommended to university students, scholars and policy makers. Technovation A very rich and coherent book highlighting, from an original perspective, the opportunities and the issues raised by the process of globalization in the context of the learning economy ... Contains many stimulating contributions by authors who have an outstanding competence in their fields. Research Policy

`A very rich and coherent book highlighting, from an original perspective, the opportunities and the issues raised by the process of globalization in the context of the learning economy ... Contains many stimulating contributions by authors who have an outstanding competence in their fields.' Research Policy, 31 `addresses some important issues of the present period characterized as it is by the spread of a new technological paradigm and by an accelerated globalization of all economic activities.' Marco Vivarelli, Catholic University of Piacenza `This book should be taken seriously if globalization means anything more than doing things the American way worldwide.' Professor Keith Pavitt, Academy of Management Journal

Author Information

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-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).

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