In a landscape characterized by globalisation, the contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the transformation undertaken by firms, universities, and other agents. They urge for a wider involvement of public policies to foster learning and innovation.

Introduction: Europe and the Learning Economy ; PART ONE: EUROPE IN GLOBAL COMPETITION ; 1. The New ; ECONOMY: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE ; 2. Europe at the Crossroads: The Challenge from Innovation-Based Growth ; PART TWO: NEW TRENDS IN FIRM ORGANIZATION, COMPETITION, AND COOPERATION ; 3. The Production of Technological Knowledge: New Issues in a Learning Economy ; 4. Universities in the Learning Economy: Balancing Institutional Integrity with Organizational Diversity ; 5. A New Role for Business Services in Economic Growth ; PART THREE: THE GLOBALIZING INNOVATION PROCESS ; 6. The Globalization of Technology and National Policies ; 7. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Inter-firm Technology Agreements in the Global Learning Economy ; PART FOUR: NEW CHALLENGES FOR EUROPE: INEQUALITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION ; 8. The Learning Economy and International Inequality ; 9. Social Exclusion in the Learning Economy ; 10. Industrial Innovation and Sustainability: Conflicts and Coherence ; 11. Organizational Innovation in European Firms: A Critical Overview of the Survey Evidence ; PART FIVE: INNOVATION POLICY IN THE NEW CONTEXT ; 12. Innovation Policy: A Systemic Approach ; 13. The Need for New Perspectives in European Commission Innovation Policy ; 14. Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Can Theory Guide Policy Making? ; 15. Innovation Policy in the Globalizing Learning Economy

`A very rich and coherent book highlighting, from an original perspective, the opportunities and the issues raised by the process of globalization in the context of the learning economy ... Contains many stimulating contributions by authors who have an outstanding competence in their fields.' Research Policy `addresses some important issues of the present period characterized as it is by the spread of a new technological paradigm and by an accelerated globalization of all economic activities.' Marco Vivarelli, Catholic University of Piacenza `This book should be taken seriously if globalization means anything more than doing things the American way worldwide.' Professor Keith Pavitt, Academy of Management Journal

Unique survey of globalization in knowledge and learning Strong focus on policy analysis Interdisciplinary approach covering economics, science and technology policy studies, and the management of innovation Accessibly written to appeal to both a specialist and non-specialist audience

Daniele Archibugi is a Technological Director at the Italian National Research Council. He has written extensively on the globalization of technology, the measurement of innovation, and the impact of innovation on economic performance. He has worked and taught at the universities of Roskilde, Sussex, Naples, Cambridge, Madrid, and Rome. He is an adviser to the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and several UN specialized agencies. Bengt-Åke Lundvall is Professor of Economics at the Department for Business Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has introduced the concepts of national innovation systems and of learning economy in economics. In 1992-5 he was Deputy Director at the Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and from February to July 1995 he was Visiting Professor at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. Currently, he is Research Manager for the nationwide Danish network DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics) and Project Director for DISKO - a project on the Danish innovation system in a comparative perspective.

Unique survey of globalization in knowledge and learning Strong focus on policy analysis Interdisciplinary approach covering economics, science and technology policy studies, and the management of innovation Accessibly written to appeal to both a specialist and non-specialist audience