Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies

1. Purpose and Scope; PART I: BUILDING-BLOCKS; 2. Management and Organization; 3. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Competence; 4. Evolution; 5. Institutions; 6. Knowledge; 7. Language; PART II: CONSTRUCTION; 8. A Theory of Interactive Learning; 9. A Heuristic of Discovery; 10. An Elaboration with Scripts; 11. Integration and Disintegration; PART III: APPLICATION; 12. Innovation Systems; 13. Organizational Learning; 14. Conclusions and Further Research; 15. Summary

Bart Nooteboom studied mathematics and econometrics. He worked in industry, was appointed Professor of Industrial Organization at Groningen University in 1987, and is now Professor of Organization at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He has published widely in the areas of entrepreneurship and small business; industry and technology policy; innovation and diffusion; transaction costs; trust; inter-firm relations; organizational learning; and philosophy of economics and management.

Review of previous edition: Bart Nooteboom has written a remarkable and valuable book. In it he draws from and weaves together conceptions and empirical research findings from a wide range of fields. The scholarship is a model of what interdisciplinary work should be. Nooteboom is concerned with knowledge, learning, and innovation, at a number of different levels - the individual, the firm, and society as a whole - and his work sheds a penetrating light on all of these. A reader interested in any or all of these subjects is bound to come away from this book with important new insights and understandings."--Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University