Lanterna Rally

Author: David A Dyker

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010-04-21

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1908978465

This important book focuses on post-Lisbon Agenda issues of alignment and misalignment on different dimensions of European society and the European economy, including industrial systems, R&D systems, educational systems and job markets. It also looks in particular at the peripheral regions of Europe — the less developed parts of ‘old’ Europe, the parts of old Europe that are outside or only half-inside the EU, the new member-states of the EU, and Turkey as the most important EU candidate country. It takes as its methodological starting point the theory of network alignment as developed in SPRU, notably by Nick von Tunzelmann, and builds on this to produce an incisive assessment of the institutions, individual actors and markets that drive the knowledge economy. In all of this, it sets the European picture firmly in the context of global developments in investment, labour and intellectual property flows. Key authors include the editor himself, von Tunzelmann, Andrea Salavetz of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Matija Rojec of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Contents:Alignment, Misalignment and Dynamic Network-Based Capabilities (N von Tunzelmann)Innovation Networks:The UK Innovation System, from a Misalignment Perspective (N von Tunzelmann)Still Divided by Transformation? Characteristic Features of the German Innovation System and the Barriers to Extending It to East Germany (P Franz)The Governance and Management of Technical Change in Transition Countries (D A Dyker)Manual Perception of Science and Industry in Innovation Networks — Evidence from East Germany (J Günther & Cornelia Lang)The Slovakian Innovation System — Why Does It Not Work? (S Salis)Labour Markets, Job Matching and Social Networking:Job Matching, Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Development (D A Dyker)Human Capital and Skills in Hungary — Matching Demand and Supply (A Szalavetz)Labour Market Constraints in Romania: The Challenge of Skill Mismatch in a Transforming Economy (D Pislaru)Horizontal and Vertical Mismatch in the Labour Market Among Graduate Students with Generic or Vocational Higher Education (P Børing)Human Resources and Skills Gap in a Regional Context: The Case of Campania (M Del Sorbo)Urbanisation and Network Alignment Issues in Istanbul: Informal Networks in Housing and Labour Markets (O Aktas)Industrial Networks and International Spillovers:Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Firm-Level Productivity Growth in Slovenia (J P Damijan et al.)The Impact of Technology on Skills in Estonian Wood-Based Industries (K Ukrainski)FDI and the National Innovation System — Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (J Günther et al)The Impact of Outward FDI on Home-Country Employment in a Low-Coat Transition Economy (J Masso et al.)Network Alignment in the Automotive Clusters of Turkey and Poland (G Ozatagan) Readership: Researchers, undergraduates, graduate students and policy-makers in global economics and international business. Keywords:Knowledge Economy;Innovation;Training;EU;New Member States;Emerging Economies;Education;EntrepreneurshipKey Features:Includes contributions by leading specialists on network alignment issuesBridges over from European to global perspectivesInterdisciplinary, covering Economics, Sociology, Geography and EducationMaintains a special focus on all the peripheral regions of Europe — not just the post-communist ones