This paper inquires how the concept of the "learning economy" can be applied to the requirements of developing … countries. The main purpose is to develop an analytical framework to better understand how learning and capability formation can … conditions developing countries can use this set of generic technologies to improve their learning capabilities. We argue that …

international production networks established by foreign electronics companies. A novel contribution of this paper is its focus on …

parts, I trace the development of Japanese production networks in Asia through three different periods. Each of these … to very different incarnations of Japanese production networks. Part I deals with the period of domestic market … momentum especially after 1986. I show that Japanese production networks have started out with a loose, locally embedded …

. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an internal learning by searching strategy, while noncumulative firms adopt … an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …

approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … and learning. Thirdly, to provide methodological suggestions for how to apply such broadened interpretation of the …

the co-evolution of industry structure and firm behavior. The focus is on the role of technological learning for the …

learning organisational forms in some parts of the economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best … new forms of firm organisation such as flexible and learning organisations increasingly are becoming “best practice”, in … an increasingly learning and global economy. On a policy level, in eg. Denmark and OECD, questions are already asked as …

competing on innovation in the global value chain; special attention is paid to clustered SMEs. By comparing 4 clusters in …This paper is concerned with unpacking the role of clusters in supporting the move from competing on low-costs to … different industries in Asia, we highlight significant differences in the learning paths of clustered SMEs. The paper …