Institutions, innovation and growth : selected economic papers

Introduction, Robert Solow the transformation of corporate organization in Europe - an overview, Wolfgang Streeck adapting European labour institutions to global economic and technical change, David Marsden activating labour-market policy - "flexicurity" through transitional labour markets, Gunther Schmid transnational technical communities and regional growth in the periphery, AnnaLee Saxenian the mechanisms of information technology's contribution to economic growth, Timothy F. Bresnahan empirical estimates of the relationship between product market competition and innovation, Philippe Aghion cooperation, creativity and closure in scientific research networks - modelling the dynamics of epistemic communities, Paul David the diversity of social systems of innovation and production during the 1990s, Bruno Amable and Pascal Petit an overview of sustainable forms of growth - the economic institutions of a European model, Jean-Philippe Touffut.