It is now widely agreed that learning is pivotal in the "knowledge societies" of today and, still more, of tomorrow. It … conference. The volume addresses issues of curriculum, innovation and the achievement of lifelong learning in the schools of …

This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15 … innovation to meet global food security and climate change challenges. The conference considered developments in institutional … frameworks, public and private roles and partnerships, regulatory frameworks conducive to innovation, the adoption of innovations …

relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain … service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also … highlight the important role of knowledge in the production system and in doing so make an important contribution to a key …

local and national systems of innovation. It analyses both the success of the triple helix as a descriptive and empirical … regional or national systems that wish to expand their innovation processes and industrial development. In addition, it …pt. I. How to capitalize knowledge -- pt. II. Triple helix in the knowledge economy …

economies /Nigel F.B. Allington and John S.L. McCombie --Knowledge externalities and growth in peripheral regions /Fabiana … Santos, Marco Crocco, and Frederico Jayme, Jr. --Knowledge, human capital and foreign direct investment in developing …

the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis …--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental … knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge …