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The Globalising Learning Economy:
Implications for Innovation Policy

B.-A. Lundvall and S. Borrás
The present report, written by Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Susana Borràs, is the result of a specific pilot action aiming to establish the dialogue between researchers and decision-makers on the role that technology and innovation play in the economy. One basic objective of the exercise was to provide policy-makers with a reasonably coherent ‘world view’ and with basic principles for policy-making on innovation in the new context of the global learning economy. Another objective was to point out research areas where more work is needed. Having as a starting point the work undertaken in seven current TSER Area I projects, this action, directed by Professor Bengt-Åke Lundvall, brought together a group of researchers from different disciplines and schools of thought. Together with political decision-makers, they debated the results of their research and sought to find answers to, and new insights into the following questions: What is the impact on innovation policies as a result of the emergence of a global economy, based increasingly on knowledge and learning? What are the effects of globalisation, including European integration, on national innovation systems? Do innovation systems develop towards greater European integration or towards greater fragmentation? What are the mechanisms which allow a better design of research and development policies taking into account the phenomenon of globalisation and learning? What is the most suitable political level of intervention in this new context? Conclusions stress the need for greater co-ordination of the various policies not only at the sectoral but also at the transnational level in order to better face the challenges of the globalisation. Table of Content

The Globalising Learning Economy is available both in a paperback version and at the Internet. The paperback version can be ordered at the European Commission, TSER central Office.

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Last update, 12th October 1998