The new economy: a European perspective / Luc Soete -- Europe at the crossroads: the challenge from innovation-based growth / Jan Fagerberg -- The production of technological knowledge: new issues in a learning economy / Patrick Cohendet and Pierre-Benoît Joly -- Universities in the learning economy: balancing institutional integrity with organizational diversity / Pedro Conceição and Manuel Heitor -- A new role for business services in economic growth / Mark Tomlinson -- The globalization of technology and national policies / Daniele Archibugi and Simona Iammarino -- Mergers, acquisitions, and inter-firm technology agreements in the global learning economy / Lynn K. Mytelka -- The learning economy and international inequality / Chris Freeman -- Social exclusion in the learning economy / Gerd Schienstock -- Industrial innovation and sustainability: conflicts and coherence / Frieder Meyer-Krahmer -- Organizational innovation in European firms: a critical overview of the survey evidence / Benjamin Coriat -- Innovation policy: a systematic approach / Charles Edquist -- The need for new perspectives in European commission innovation policy / Margaret Sharp -- Innovation policy in the knowledge-based economy: can theory guide policy making? / Jens Nyholm [and others] -- Innovation policy in the globalizing learning economy / Bengt-Åke Lundvall