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Learning and knowledge for the Network Society

 

Edited by: David Gibson, Manuel Heitor and Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez QUORUM Books Series on "Technology Policy and Innovation", Volume 4

 

Table of Contents

Foreword
    Ramiro Wahrhaftig

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
    David Gibson, Manuel Heitor and Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez

PART I: BUILDING THE LEARNING ECONOMY: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR GOVERNANCE

Introductory Note
    Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez

2. Innovation Policy and Knowledge Management in the Learning Economy
    Bengt-Åke Lundvall

3. Innovation Policies in the Knowledge Era
    Helena Maria Martins Lastres and José Eduardo Cassiolato

4. Development Policy and the Economy: Wither the State?
    Robert H. Wilson

5. New Logistics Technologies and Infrastructures for the Digitized Economy
    John D. Kasarda

6. Institutions and Knowledge Networks: the Chinese Experience
    Leslie Young

7. Regulatory Shields and Firm's Conduct: Application to Telecommunications Companies in Chile and Mexico
    Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez

PART II: NETWORKING FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LOOKING FOR INCLUSIVENESS

Introductory Note
    Manuel V. Heitor

8. Getting the Tail to Wag: Enabling Innovation in Small/Medium-sized Enterprises
    John Robert Bessant

9. Productivity and Regional Density
    Rui Miguel L. N. Baptista

10. From Technology Policy for Regions to Regional Technology Policy: Towards a New Policy Strategy in the EU
    Michael Guth

11. Regional Innovation Policy at Community Level—Evidence from the RITTS Programme to Promote Regional Innovation Systems
    Fabienne Corvers

12. Information and Communication Technologies and Economic development of Peripherally Located Regions: Experiences in the Netherlands
    Marina van Geenhuizen

13. Network Building Between Research Institutions and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Dynamics of Innovation network Building and Implications for a Policy option
    Junmo Kim

14. Innovation Clusters in Latin America
    Isabel Bortagaray and Scott Tiffin

15. A Network of Knowledge-intensive Clusters for Regional Development: The Paraná W-Class Program
    Carlos Quandt and Luiz Márcio Spinosa

16. Globalization and Industrial Restructuring in Mexico; the Electronics and Automobile Industries
    Cristina Casanueva Reguart

17. The Nature of the Networks of Innovation and Technological Information Diffusion in a Region in the Initial Stages of Industrial Development
    Decio Estevão do Nascimento

PART III: LANGUAGE, DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY

Introductory Note
    Lawrence Graham

18. The Universal Network Language: An Electronic Esperanto? No, a Language for Computers
    Tarcisio Della Senta and G. M. K. Menon

19. The Color of Voice, The Resonance of Language: Precedents of the Digital Divide
    Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte

20. Foreign Language Materials for Business Portuguese: The Role of Technology in the Development of Foreign Language Curriculum
    Orlando R. Kelm

21. The Portuguese Language without Frontiers
    Regina L. P. Dell'Isola

Index

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