Learning regional innovation: Scandinavian models

Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book. Both are issues of organization and not of ethics, or the enforcementof other forms of obligations on individual actors. The need is for a democratization of innovation that can make innovation open to broad participation. MARIANNE EKMAN Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Department of Industrial Ecomomics and Management, Sweden. BJØRN GUSTAVSEN, Work Research Institute,Norway. BJÖRN TERJE ASHEIM, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden and University ofAgder, Norway. ØYVIND PÅLSHAUGEN, Work Research Institute, Norway. INDICE: Innovation, Participation and 'Constructivist Society'; 'B.Gustavsen - 'Learning, Innovation and Participation: Nordic Experiences in a Global Context with a Focus on Innovation Systems and Work Organization; 'B.Asheim - 'The Organisation of Work and Systems of Labour Market Regulation and Social Protection: a Comparison of the EU-15; 'E.Lorenz' & 'B.-Åke Lundvall - 'Promoting Innovative Organization; 'B.Gustavsen - 'Discourse and Change in Organizations; 'H.C.Garmann Johnsen - 'Incremental Innovations in Organisational Performance in Health Care; 'M.Ekman' & 'B.Maina Ahlberg - 'Research in Action: The Development of Cluster Specific Innovation Strategies in the Oslo Region 90; 'Ø.Pålshaugen - 'The Initiation and Organization of Regional Innovation Processes; 'H.Eriksson, T.Haga '&' B.Hofmaier' - Proactive Labour Market Policy as a Step Towards New Regional Innovation Policy: The Case of Tampere Region; 'P.Koski '&' A.Järvensivu' - Participative Democracy and the Diffusion of Organizational Innovations: The Long, Winding Road from a Plant Level 'field experiment' to Regional Economic Development; 'T.Ulrik Qvale - 'Shared Learning Spaces as Enablers in Regional Development and Learning; 'T.Kantola, S.Lassila, H.Mäntylä, A.Äyväri, S.Kalliokoski, J.Ritalahti, A.Sipilä '&' T.Soisalon-Soininen' - Two Different Roads Towards Regional Development Deliberating Differences Between Regional Development Processes in Blekinge and Vestfold; 'J.-Evert Nilsson'& 'Å.Uhlin - 'Gender, Work and Innovation; 'A.Hansson - 'Strategies to Promote Workplace Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Nine National and Regional Approaches; 'T.Alasoin'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27560-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
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