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

by Archibugi, Daniele; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke

• ISBN13: 9780199241095
• ISBN10: 0199241090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 Europestill 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 mostsignificant policies adopted and assess them in the light of the European experience in comparison with the United States and Japan.

Author Biography

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-Ake 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.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi
List of tables	xii
List of abbreviations	xiii
List of Contributors	xvi
Introduction: Europe and the Learning Economy	1	(20)
Part I Europe in global competition
The New Economy: A European Perspective	21	(24)
Luc Soete
Europe at the Crossroads: The Challenge from Innovation-based Growth	45	(18)
Jan Fagerberg
Part II New trends in firm organization, competition, and co-operation
The Production of Technological Knowledge: New Issues in a Learning Economy	63	(20)
Patrick Cohendet
Pierre-Benoit Joly
Universities in the Learning Economy: Balancing Institutional Integrity with Organizational Diversity	83	(14)
Pedro Conceicao
Manuel Heitor
A New Role for Business Services in Economic Growth	97	(14)
Mark Tomlinson
Part III The globalizing innovation process
The Globalization of Technology and National Policies	111	(16)
Daniele Archibugi
Simona Iammarino
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Inter-firm Technology Agreements in the Global Learning Economy	127	(20)
Lynn K. Mytelka
Part IV New challenges in Europe: Inequality, sustainability, and organizational innovation
The Learning Economy and International Inequality	147	(16)
Chris Freeman
Social Exclusion in the Learning Economy	163	(14)
Gerd Schienstock
Industrial Innovation and Sustainability---Conflicts and Coherence	177	(18)
Frieder Meyer-Krahmer
Organizational Innovation in European Firms: A Critical Overview of the Survey Evidence	195	(24)
Benjamin Coriat
Part V Innovation Policy in the new context
Innovation Policy---A Systemic Approach	219	(20)
Charles Edquist
The Need for New Perpectives in European Commission Innovation Policy	239	(14)
Margaret Sharp
Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-based Economy---Can Theory Guide Policy Making?	253	(20)
Jens Nyholm
Lars Normann
Claus Frelle-Petersen
Mark RIIS
Peter Torstensen
Innovation Policy in the Globalizing Learning Economy	273	(20)
Bengt-Ake Lundvall
Index	293