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(s): Meric S. Gertler, David A. Wolfe
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 274
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
1. Innovation and Social Learning: an Introduction......Page 16
2. Farms, Phones and Learning in the Trade Regime......Page 40
3. Institutional Learning in International Financial Regimes......Page 59
4. Institutional Learning in Standards Setting......Page 80
5. Locational Tournaments, Strategic Partnerships and the State......Page 104
6. Technology, Culture and Social Learning: Regional and National Institutions of Governance......Page 126
7. Institutions of the Learning Economy......Page 150
8. The Learning Region......Page 174
9. Regional Innovation Systems and Regional Competitiveness......Page 192
10. Regions as Laboratories: the Rise of Regional Experimentalism in Europe......Page 219
11. Negotiating Order: Sectoral Policies and Social Learning in Ontario......Page 242
Index......Page 266
