Innovation, Economic Progress and the Quality of Life Book

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	List of Contributors
	Preface
1	Introduction: Innovation and innovation policy: the need for re-examination	1
2	Cultural influences on innovation climates in the industrialised world	20
3	The economic role of technology in a competence bloc based industrial policy analysis	31
4	Innovation policy as a substitute for failing economic policies	54
5	Innovation: from individual decisions to the emergence of policy and global fate - a sociological perspective	62
6	Internationalisation of innovation, interdependence and innovation policy for sustainable development	86
7	The knowledge based economy: better living or bigger profits?	111
8	Learning-by-comparing: reflections on the use and abuse of international benchmarking	120
9	Territory and innovation: the role of the milieu	137
10	Social capital: the core factor in economic resurgence	144
11	Innovation in the next decade: the need for integrated policies	164
	Index	177