Learning regions as development coalitions: Partnership as governance in European workfare states?

Summary, in English

The understanding of post-Fordist societies as learning economies, in which learning organizations such as learning firms and learning regions play a strategic role, has lately received some criticism. The critique has partly pointed at the structural limits to learning in a capitalist global economy, and partly argued that firms in capitalist societies have always been learning, referring especially to the role of innovation in inter-firm competition. Against the critics, it is argued that the learning region has great potential, both as a theoretical and normative concept and as a practical metaphor for formulating regional policy.

• Author: Björn Asheim
• Department/s: Department of Human Geography
• Publishing year: 2001
• Language: English
• Pages: 73-101
• Publication/Series: Concepts and Transformation
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cat.6.1.05ash
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Topic: Human Geography
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1384-6639