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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827704603321

Titolo

How Europe's economies learn : coordinating competing models / / edited by Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-03430-3

1-280-75413-3

0-19-151399-7

1-4294-7020-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LorenzEdward H

LundvallBengt-Åke <1941->

Disciplina

330.94

Soggetti

European Union countries Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1. Understanding European Systems of Competence Building; PART I. DIVERSITY IN EUROPEAN SYSTEMS OF COMPETENCE BUILDING; PART II. ORGANIZATION, LABOUR MARKETS, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; PART III. EDUCATION SYSTEMS AND SCIENCE-INDUSTRY LINKS; PART IV. MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND POLICY OPTIONS; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. - ;When seeking to bench mark the performance of European economies, commentators often look to compare them to the economies of Japan and the United States. How Europe's Economies Learn shows how this is seriously misleading, and how any such comparison need