How Europe's Economies Learn: Coordinating Competing Models

ISBN-13: 9780199203192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 470 str.

Edward Lorenz; Bengt-Oake Lundvall; Bengt-Ake Lundvall

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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.