The Globalizing Learning Economy: Major Socio-Economic Trends and European Innovation Policy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199241090 ISBN 13: 9780199241095

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Knowledge is becoming increasingly important in contemporary economic systems, and economic growth and welfare depends on how promptly economic agents are able to exploit the benefits derived from technological innovations. In a landscape characterized by globalization, the contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the transformation undertaken by firms, universities, and other agents. They urge for a wider involvement of public policies to foster learning and innovation.

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About the Author

Daniele Archibugi is a Technological Director at the Italian National Research Council and a Commissioner of the Authority for Public Services of the Rome City Council. He has written extensively on the globalization of technology, the measurement of innovation, and the impact of innovation on economic performance. He has worked and taught at the universities of Roskilde, Sussex, Naples, Cambridge, and Rome. He is an adviser to the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and several UN specialized agencies. Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor of Economics at the Department for Business Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has introduced the concepts of national innovation systems and of learning economy in economics. In 1992-5 he was Deputy Director at the Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and from February to July 1995 he was Visiting Professor at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. Currently, he is Research Manager for the nationwide Danish network DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics) and Project Director for DISKO - a project on the Danish innovation system in a comparative perspective.

Review

`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

`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

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0199241090
• ISBN 13: 9780199241095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Archibugi Daniele, Lundvall Bengt-oAke