Innovation and Social Learning Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change

by Gertler, Meric S.; Wolfe, David A.

• ISBN13: 9780333752845
• ISBN10: 0333752848
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The ability of societies to manage the current transition to an innovation-driven learning economy is determined by the capacity of existing institutions to facilitate the changes underway. Individual and social learning dynamics are critical to the innovation process and essential for developing and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. The crucial issue is: 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?

Author Biography

Meric S. Gertler is Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto.

David A. Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of Abbreviations	x
Notes on the Contributors	xii
Innovation and Social Learning: an Introduction	1	(24)
David A. Wolfe
Meric S. Gertler
Farms, Phones and Learning in the Trade Regime	25	(19)
Robert Wolfe
Institutional Learning in International Financial Regimes	44	(21)
Tony Porter
Institutional Learning in Standards Setting	65	(24)
Liora Salter
Locational Tournaments, Strategic Partnerships and the State	89	(22)
Lynn K. Mytelka
Technology, Culture and Social Learning: Regional and National Institutions of Governance	111	(24)
Meric S. Gertler
Institutions of the Learning Economy	135	(24)
Michael Storper
The Learning Region	159	(18)
Richard Florida
Regional Innovation Systems and Regional Competitiveness	177	(27)
Philip Cooke
Regions as Laboratories: the Rise of Regional Experimentalism in Europe	204	(23)
Kevin Morgan
Dylan Henderson
Negotiating Order: Sectoral Policies and Social Learning in Ontario	227	(24)
David A. Wolfe
Index	251