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Zusatztext The knowledge economy is said to be the future of Europe. The scholars, here assembled, display their quite extensive and diversified expertise in order tocarefully investigate why and how the learning economy requires definite complementarities between the academic world, the innovation system, the organisation of welfare and firms. They argue that the diversity of institutionalized learning processes is a chance and an invitation to redesign most domestic and European policies. The clarity of the diagnosis is a source of hope for renewed economic dynamism in Europe. Informationen zum Autor Edward Lorenz was awarded a BS in Economics from MIT in 1975, an MA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 1983. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. He also holds the posts of Research Associate at the Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi, France and Assigned Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include innovation systems, knowledge management, and organisational behaviour. Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor in Economics at the University of Aalborg. Klappentext When seeking to bench mark the performance of European economies, commentators often look for comparison the economies of Japan and the United States. How Europe's Economies Learn shows how this is seriously misleading and needs to be complemented with an understanding of the fundamental differences between Europe's economies. Zusammenfassung Develops an original and policy-relevant framework for analysing the way differences in institutional contexts, such as work organisation, labour markets, education and training systems, financial systems, and systems of social protection, shape learning processes and innovation performance across the member nations of the European Union. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall: Understanding European systems of competence building Part I Diversity in European Systems of Competence Building 2: Mark Tomlinson: Do national systems converge? 3: Mei Ho and Bart Verspagen: Do national borders matter for knowledge flows and innovation diffusion? 4: Aadne Cappelen: Differences in learning and inequality Part II Organization, Labour Markets and Corporate Governance 5: Alice Lam and Bengt-Åke Lundvall: Learning organizations and national systems of competence building 6: Edward Lorenz and Antoine Valeyre: Organizational forms and innovative performance: a comparison of the EU-15 7: Peter Nielsen and Bengt-Aake Lundvall: Learning organizations and industrial relations: How the Danish economy learns 8: Andrew Tylecote: Organizational structure and the diffusion of new forms of corporate governance in Europe Part III Education Systems and Science-industry Links 9: Giovanni Dosi, Patrick Llerena and Mauro Sylos Labini: Science-technology-industry links and the 'European Paradox' 10: Patrick Cohendet, , Chantale Mailhot and Véronique Schaeffer: European universities under the pressure of globalization 11: Eric Verdier: European education systems and their contribution to the learning economy 12: Caroline Lanciano-Morandat and Hiroatsu Nohara: Science-industry links and the labour markets for PhDs 13: Christian Bessy: Competence certification and the reform of vocational education: a comparison of the UK, France and Germany Part IV Multi-level Governance and Policy Options 14: Richard Whitley: Innovation systems and institutional regimes in Europe: The impact of multi-tiered governance on national and sectoral levels of organization 15: Maria Rodrigues: National strategies of transition to a knowledge economy in the European Union- learning, innovation and the open method of coordination 16: Bengt- Åke Lundvall and Edward...
