The central question of this book deals with the issue how knowledge that is newly generated within the scientific … system can be applied within the economic system of an economy. Knowledge is the basis for innovations and innovations are … the engine for economic development, prosperity and finally growth. The economic application of new knowledge normally …

: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …