The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope

Bengt-Âke Lundvall

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Insights in processes of innovation and learning by a world’s leading expert on management and development

‘The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope’ brings together contributions by an expert on policies, management and economics of innovation and knowledge. It offers original insights in processes of innovation and learning and it draws implications for economic theory and public policy. It introduces the reader to important concepts such as innovation systems and the learning economy. It throws a new light on economic development and opens up for a new kind of economics – the economics of hope. It offers a fresh perspective on many of the most important global challenges of today showing how full attention to the characteristics of the learning economy needs to be combined with innovation in global governance if we want to be able to handle these challenges.

‘The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope’ presents work published between 1985 and 1992 and introduces the core concepts innovation as an interactive process. The analysis demonstrates that new technology is developed in an interaction between individuals and organisations and that innovation would not thrive in an economy similar to textbook models of pure markets and perfect competition. It also presents articles that were published between 2004 and 2010. These may be seen as further developments and evidence-based consolidation of ideas that were presented more than ten years earlier. It presents the learning economy through the perspective of the economics of knowledge. The concluding part of the book includes three papers that make use of the conceptual frameworks developed in an analysis of China’s innovation system and policy, Europe’s crisis and Africa’s underdevelopment.

Preface; Part I : Introduction; 1. Contributions to the Learning Economy - Overview and Context; Part II : Innovation as Interactive Process; 2. Product Innovation and User-Producer Interaction; 3. Innovation as an Interactive Process - from User-Producer Interaction to National Systems of Innovation; 4. National Systems of Innovation: Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning; 5. The Learning Economy Part III: Economics of Knowledge and Learning; 6. From the Economics of Knowledge to the Learning Economy; 7. Forms of Knowledge and Modes of Innovation; 8. How Europe's Economies Learn: A Comparison of Work Organisation and Innovation Mode for the EU-15; 9. Post Script: Innovation System Research -Where it Came From and Where it Might Go; Part IV: Continental Transformations and Global Challenges; 10. China’s Innovation System and the Move toward Harmonious Growth and Endogenous Innovation; 11. The 'New Deal' as a Response to the Euro-Crisis; 12. Growth and Structural Change in Africa: Development Strategies for the Learning Economy; 13. National Innovation Systems and Globalisation; Part V: Economics of Hope or Despair: What Next?14. The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sujets

• Research and development
• Knowledge capital

Informations

• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783085989
• Langue: English

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The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope
Anthem Studies in Innovation and Development
The Anthem Studies in Innovation and Development aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of how innovation impacts human and economic development. The aim is to promote a better understanding of innovation, evaluate ongoing approaches to analyse innovation capacity, and to generate a set of instructive readings that elaborate upon the role of innovation capabilities in enabling development, reducing inequality and eliminating poverty. The series is interested in exploring the role of technology and innovation in sustainable development (at the global or sectoral level), links between trade and innovation (including investment and intellectual property rights), the role of the state and new issues in the interface of innovation and industrial policy. The series is particularly interested in analytical approaches to institutional and evolutionary economics, new frameworks and constructs on capabilities building and economic history reviews of innovation and technological change.
Series Editors
Padmashree Gehl Sampath – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Switzerland; Aalborg University, Denmark
Rajneesh Narula – University of Reading, UK
Editorial Board
Dan Breznitz – University of Toronto, Canada
Carlos Correa – University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dominique Foray – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Elisa Guiliani – University of Pisa, Italy
Raphie Kaplinsky – University of Sussex, UK
Bengt-Åke Lundvall – Aalborg University, Denmark
Keith Maskus – University of Colorado, USA
Khalid Nadvi – University of Manchester, UK
The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope
Bengt-Åke Lundvall
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Names: Lundvall, Bengt-Åke, 1941– author.
Title: The learning economy and the economics of hope / by Bengt-Åke Lundvall.
Description: London; New York, NY: Anthem Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016038800 | ISBN 9781783085965 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Knowledge economy. | Information technology – Economic aspects. | Technological innovations – Economic aspects.
Classification: LCC HC79.I55 L86 2016 | DDC 303.48/3 – dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038800

ISBN-13: 978-1-78308-596-5 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1-78308-596-7 (Hbk)

This title is also available as an e-book.
CONTENTS
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Part I.
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1.
Contributions to the Learning Economy: Overview and Context Bengt-Åke Lundvall
1.1 The Structure of the Book
1.2 What Is Wrong with Economics?
References
Part II.
INNOVATION AS INTERACTIVE PROCESS
Chapter 2.
Product Innovation and User–Producer Interaction Bengt-Åke Lundvall
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Framework
2.3 Product Innovation and the Organized Market
2.4 Unsatisfactory Innovations
2.5 User–Producer Perspective on Location of Production
2.6 The Science–Technology Nexus
2.7 Units of Analysis and Propositions
2.8 A Final Remark
Notes
References
Chapter 3.
Innovation as an Interactive Process: From User–Producer Interaction to the National Systems of Innovation Bengt-Åke Lundvall
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Micro-Foundation: Interaction between Users and Producers
3.3 National Systems of Innovation
3.4 National Systems of Production
3.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4.
National Systems of Innovation: Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning Bengt-Åke Lundvall
4.1 Introduction
4.2 National Systems of Innovation
4.3 Towards a Theory
4.4 The Elements of the System
4.5 Opening the System
4.6 Alternative Approaches and Methods
Notes
References
Chapter 5.
The Learning Economy Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Björn Johnson
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Knowledge-Intensive Economy
5.3 Knowledge Intensity and Learning in the Post-Fordist Era
5.4 What Is Economic Knowledge?
5.5 Is Knowledge a Scarce Resource?
5.6 Interactive Learning
5.7 Remembering and Forgetting
5.8 Learning in Pure and Mixed Economies
5.9 The Organized Market as Institutional Response
5.10 Benefits and Costs of Organized Markets
5.11 Government Intervention in the Learning Economy
5.12 The Means to Learn
5.13 The Incentives to Learn
5.14 The Capability to Learn
5.15 Access to Relevant Knowledge
5.16 Learning to Forget
5.17 Concluding Remarks
References
Part III.
ECONOMICS OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
Chapter 6.
From the Economics of Knowledge to the Learning Economy Bengt-Åke Lundvall
6.1 Introduction
6.2 A Terminology of Knowledge
6.3 An Economic Perspective on the Production, Mediation and Use of Knowledge
6.4 Towards the Learning Economy
6.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7.
Forms of Knowledge and Modes of Innovation Morten Berg Jensen, Björn Johnson, Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall
7.1 Introduction
7.2 What Is Knowledge?
7.3 Forms of Knowledge and Modes of Learning
7.4 The Need for a New Empirical Approach
7.5 Empirical Analysis
7.6 Conclusion: Implications for Innovation Analysis and Policy
Appendix 1 The Questions Used and the Original Coding in the Questionnaire
Appendix 2 The Goodness of Fit of the Model
Notes
References
Chapter 8.
How Europe’s Economies Learn: A Comparison of Work Organization and Innovation Mode for the EU-15 Anthony Arundel, Edward Lorenz, Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Antoine Valeyre
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Measuring Forms of Work Organization in the European Union
8.3 How Europe’s Economies Work and Learn
8.4 Measuring Differences in Innovation Mode
8.5 The Relation between Organizational Practice and Innovation Mode
8.6 Differences between Manufacturing and Services
8.7 Conclusion
Appendix 1 Organizational Variables Used in Factor Analysis
Appendix 2 Graphical Representation of Factor Analysis – 15 Organizational Variables
Notes
References
Chapter 9.
Postscript: Innovation System Research; Where It Came From and Where It Might Go Bengt-Åke Lundvall
9.1 Introduction
9.2 A Concept with Roots Far Back in History
9.3 National Innovation System as Analytical Focusing Device
9.4 Challenges for Innovation System Research
9.5 National Systems of Innovation and Economic Development
9.6 Conclusions
Notes
References
Part IV.
CONTINENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Chapter 10.
China’s Innovation System and the Move towards Harmonious Growth and Endogenous Innovation Shulin Gu and Bengt-Åke Lundvall
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Transition of China’s Economy
10.3 The Transformation of China’s Innovation System
10.4 Problems, Debates and Challenges
10.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 11.
The ‘New New Deal’ as a Response to the Euro-Crisis Bengt-Åke Lundvall
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Innovation and the Division of Labour
11.3 The Learning Economy
11.4 Modes of Innovation and Innovation Performance
11.5 How Europe’s Economies Learn
11.6 Education and Training for Learning Organizations
11.7 Skill Requirements in Firms Engaged in Organizational Change
11.8 The Role of Universities in the Learning Economy
11.9 Linking Modes of Learning to Measures of Employment and Unemployment Security
11.10 Degree of Inequality in Access to Organizational Learning in Europe
11.11 The Euro-Crisis and Europe’s Uneven Development
11.12 Policy Recommendations
11.13 The Roads Ahead for Europe
Notes
References
Chapter 12.
Growth and Structural Change in Africa: Development Strategies for the Learning Economy Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Rasmus Lema
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Recent Deve