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INNOVATION, COMPETENCE BUILDING, AND SOCIAL COHESION IN EUROPE Towards a Learning Society Editors: Pedro Conceição, Manuel V. Heitor and Bengt-Åke Lundvall Expected publication date: June 2003 CONTENTS Preface Maria João Rodrigues Chapter 1 – Introduction Towards a Learning Society     Pedro Conceição, Manuel V. Heitor and Bengt-Åke Lundvall PART I – FOSTERING INNOVATION Introductory Note: Novelty, Knowledge and Learning    João Caraça Chapter 2 Interactions Between Policy Learning and Innovation Theory     Lynn K. Mytelka and Keith Smith Chapter 3 Manna Trajectories and Networks: Shifting Heuristics in the Economics of Innovation     Cristiano Antonelli Chapter 4 Policy Integration and Action Diversification for an “European Innovation Area”: Learning from the Portuguese Specificities     Pedro Conceição and Manuel V. Heitor PART II – PROMOTING ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Introductory Note: Innovation and Institutional Change     Ed Lorenz Chapter 5 Understanding Technological and Organisational Change     James Wickham Chapter 6 The Flexible Firm: New Concepts and Differences Between the Nordic Systems of Innovation     Allan Næs Gjerding Chapter 7 Broadening the Analysis of Innovation Systems – Competition, Organisational Change and Employment    Dynamics in the Danish System     Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Jesper L. Christensen PART III – BUILDING COMPETENCES Introductory Note: Competence Building for Innovation     Manuel V. Heitor Chapter 8 On Knowledge and Learning for the New Millennium     Roberto Carneiro Chapter 9 Low skills - a Social Problem for Europe     Hilary Steedman Chapter 10 Competence Building In Life-Wide Learning     Hannele Niemi Chapter 11 Trade Unions in Western Europe: An Over-view and Prospects for Social Inclusion and Competence-Building     Alison Booth PART IV – STRIVING FOR SOCIAL COHESION Introductory Note: Innovation and Social Cohesion     Pedro Conceição Chapter 12 Unemployment, Work and Welfare     Duncan Gallie Chapter 13 Locally Based Actions to Counteract Social Exclusion     Chiara Saraceno Chapter 14 Globalization, Social Inequality, and the Role of Country-specific Institutions     Hans-Peter Blossfeld