National Systems of Innovation - Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning. Lundvall, B-A. (ed.), London, Pinter Publishers, 1992. 2nd paperback edition, 1995.

The book has the form of a reader with twelve different authors - Francois Chesnais, Jan Fagerberg and Christopher Freeman together with nine scholars from the IKE Group - but the fourteen chapters have been designed so that the book should give a coherent analytical approach to and a reasonably complete picture of national systems of innovation. The first part of the book presents the analytical approach with its focus upon interactive learning. The second part analyses the most important elements of a system of innovation. The third part focuses upon the openness of national systems, and upon international economic integration and globalization. The final chapter discusses public policy in a learning society.

Outline of chapters:

  1. Bengt-Åke Lundvall: Introduction

    Part I Towards a New Approach to National Systems of Innovation

  2. Bjørn Johnson: Institutional Learning
  3. Bengt-Åke Lundvall: User-Producer Relationships, National Systems of Innovation and Internationalisation
  4. Esben Sloth Andersen: Approaching National Systems of Innovation

    Part II A Closer Look at National Systems of Innovation

  5. Allan Næs Gjerding: Work Organisation and the Innovation Design Dilemma
  6. Lars Gelsing: Innovation and the Development of Industrial Networks
  7. Birgitte Gregersen: The Public Sector as a Pacer in National Systems of Innovation
  8. Jesper Lindgaard Christensen: The Role of Finance in National Systems of Innovation
  9. Christopher Freeman: Formal Scientific and Technical Indsitutions in the National System of Innovation

    Part III Opening National Systems of Innovation: Specialisation, Multinational Corporations and Integration

  10. Bent Dalum: Export Specialisation, Structural Competitiveness and National Systems of Innovation
  11. Jan Fagerberg: The Home Market Hypothesis Reexamined: The Impact of Domestic User-Producer Interaction on Export
  12. Esben Sloth Andersen: Integration, Innovation and Evolution
  13. Francois Chesnais: National Systems of Innovation, Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Enterprises
  14. Bent Dalum, Bjørn Johnson and Bengt-Åke Lundvall: Public Policy in the Learning Society.

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