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Innovation and Social Learning

Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change

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  • © 2002

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  1. Meric S. Gertler

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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  2. David A. Wolfe

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Innovation and Social Learning: an Introduction

    • David A. Wolfe, Meric S. Gertler
    Pages 1-24

  3. Farms, Phones and Learning in the Trade Regime

    • Robert Wolfe
    Pages 25-43

  4. Institutional Learning in International Financial Regimes

    • Tony Porter
    Pages 44-64

  5. Institutional Learning in Standards Setting

    • Liora Salter
    Pages 65-88

  6. Locational Tournaments, Strategic Partnerships and the State

    • Lynn K. Mytelka
    Pages 89-110

  7. Technology, Culture and Social Learning: Regional and National Institutions of Governance

    • Meric S. Gertler
    Pages 111-134

  8. Institutions of the Learning Economy

    • Michael Storper
    Pages 135-158

  9. The Learning Region

    • Richard Florida
    Pages 159-176

  10. Regional Innovation Systems and Regional Competitiveness

    • Philip Cooke
    Pages 177-203

  11. Regions as Laboratories: the Rise of Regional Experimentalism in Europe

    • Kevin Morgan, Dylan Henderson
    Pages 204-226

  12. Negotiating Order: Sectoral Policies and Social Learning in Ontario

    • David A. Wolfe
    Pages 227-250

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 251-258
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About this book

How well suited are the institutions of a region, nation or international regime to the task of coping with the dramatic changes currently underway in the global economy? This volume examines this issue.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    Meric S. Gertler, David A. Wolfe

About the editors

PHILIP COOKE Professor of Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff RICHARD FLORIDA H. John Heinz III Professor of Regional Economic Development, Carnegie Mellon University DYLAN HENDERSON Research Associate, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University KEVIN MORGAN Professor of European Regional Development, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University LYNN K. MYTELKA Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University and Director, Institute for New Technologies, United Nations University TONY PORTER Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University LIORA SALTER Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, and of Environment Studies, York University MICHAEL STORPER Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles and Professor of Human and Social Sciences, Université de Marne-la-Vallée ROBERT WOLFE Professor of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

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