Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Innovation, Participation and 'Constructivist Society'; 2 Learning, Innovation and Participation: Nordic Experiences in a Global Context with a Focus on Innovation Systems and Work Organization; 3 The Organization of Work and Systems of Labour Market Regulation and Social Protection: A Comparison of the EU-15; 4 Promoting Innovative Organization; 5 Discourse and Change in Organizations; 6 Incremental Innovations in Organizational Performance in Health Care
7 Research in Action: The Development of Cluster-Specific Innovation Strategies in the Oslo Region8 The Initiation and Organization of Regional Innovation Processes; 9 Proactive Labour Market Policy as a Step Towards New Regional Innovation Policy: The Case of Tampere Region; 10 Participative Democracy and the Diffusion of Organizational Innovations: The Long, Winding Road from a Plant Level 'Field Experiment' to Regional Economic Development; 11 Shared Learning Spaces as Enablers in Regional Development and Learning; 12 Innovating Regional Co-operation between the Local and the National
13 Gender, Work and Innovation14 Strategies to Promote Workplace Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Nine National and Regional Approaches; References; Index
Summary
Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book. Both are issues of organization and not of ethics, or the enforcement of other forms of obligations on individual actors. The need is for a democratization of innovation that can make innovation open to broad participation
