Network dynamics in emerging regions of Europe
This important book focuses on post-Lisbon Agenda issues of alignment and misalignment on different dimensions of European society and the European economy, including industrial systems, R&D systems, educational systems and job markets. It also looks in particular at the peripheral regions of Eu...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. ch. 1. Alignment, misalignment and dynamic network-based capabilities / Nick von Tunzelmann
- Section 1 : Innovation networks. ch. 2. The UK innovation system, from a misalignment perspective / Nick von Tunzelmann. ch. 3. Still divided by transformation? Characteristic features of the German innovation system and the barriers to extending it to east Germany / Peter Franz. ch. 4. The governance and management of technical change in transition countries / David A. Dyker. ch. 5. Mutual perception of science and industry in innovation networks - evidence from east Germany / Jutta Günther and Cornelia Lang. ch. 6. The Slovakian innovation system - why does it not work? / Silvester Salis
- Section 2 : Labour markets, job matching and social networking. ch. 7. Job matching, Human capital accumulation and economic development / David A. Dyker. ch. 8. Human capital and skills in Hungary - matching demand and supply / Andrea Szalavetz. ch. 9. Labour market constraints in Romania : the challenge of skill mismatch in a transforming economy / Dragos Pislaru. ch. 10. Horizontal and vertical mismatch in the labour market among graduate students with generic or vocational higher education / Pål Børing. ch. 11. Human resources and skills gap in a regional context : the case of Campania / Maria Del Sorbo. ch. 12. Urbanisation and network alignment issues in Istanbul : informal networks in housing and labour markets / Ozge Aktas
- Section 3 : Industrial networks and international spillovers. ch. 13. Knowledge spillovers, innovation and firm-level productivity growth in Slovenia / Joz̮e P. Damijan ... [et al.]. ch. 14. The impact of technology on skills in Estonian wood-based industries / Kadri Ukrainski. ch. 15. FDI and the national innovation system - evidence from central and eastern Europe / Jutta Günther, Björn Jindra and Johannes Stephan. ch. 16. The impact of outward FDI on home-country employment in a low-cost transition economy / Jaan Masso, Urmas Varblane and Priit Vahter. ch. 17. Network alignment in the automotive clusters of Turkey and Poland / Guldem Ozatagan.