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 Towards a "Learning Society": avenues for S&T policy research
Improved understanding of innovation patterns has contributed for the analysis of different challenges for policy research in the context of the emerging importance of knowledge for development, including:
1) balancing innovation and diffusion;
2) beyond the excludability of software;
3) deepen the conceptual framework establish through the interactive model of innovation, making use of policy measures;
4) promoting wetware and software interaction; and
5) the need for the inclusive development.
Conceição et al. (1998), Technological Forecasting & Social Change [download paper]
…the dynamics of technological innovation, together with competence building and social cohesion, has been considered with attention focused on the ability to build "social capital" towards a learning society.
Conceição et al. (2001), Technological Forecasting & Social Change, vol 66(1) [download paper]
...while much attention has been devoted to digital technologies, a more fundamental change at the start of the new millennium is the increasing importance of knowledge for economic prosperity and the emergence of a learning society. The ways new competencies, namely in conventional engineering, economics and management, may positively influence the development of a country and/or region depend on the institutional framework, which is currently particularly determined by regulation policies and the process of market liberalization. Again, this calls for the need to promote education and research in technology policy and related challenges are presented and discussed in a context where innovation should be understood as a broad social and economic activity within the framework of the learning society.
Conceição et al. (2001), Technological Forecasting & Social Change, vol 67(2) [download paper]
Concepts such as learning ability, creativity and sustained flexibility gain greater importance as guiding principles for the conduct of individuals, institutions, nations and regions. It is thus legitimate to question the traditional way of viewing the role that contemporary institutions play in the process of economic development and to argue for the need to promote systems of innovation and competence building based on learning and knowledge networks.
Conceição & Heitor (2002), Technological Forecasting & Social Change, vol 69 [download paper]
we emphasize the relative importance of infrastructures and incentives, but considering the increasingly important role of institutions towards the development of social capital. This is because learning societies will increasingly rely on “distributed knowledge bases”, as a systematically coherent set of knowledge, maintained across an economically and/or socially integrated set of agents and institutions.
Conceição, Heitor and Veloso (2003), Technological Forecasting & Social Change [download paper]
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