Employment and growth in the knowledge based economy : [Proceedings] / organised by the Danish Ministry of Business and Industry and the Organisation For Economic Co-operation and Development ; opening address Poul Nyrup Rasmussen ; Moses Abramovitz, Paul A. David, Anne P. Carter, Riel Miller, Giovanni Dosi, G. Ferné, Ken-ichi Imai, Ian Miles, G. Vickery, Ulrich Hilpert, John Matthews, Lars Erik Andreason, Lars Kolind, David Stern, J. Guinet, Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, Niels Chr. Nielson, Michael Storper, N. Bowers, David R. Howell, Lewis S. Alexander, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Francesco Luna, Niels Kleis Frederiksen, Peter Reinhard Hansen, Henrik Jacobsen, Peter Birch Sorensen, Finn Lauritzen, Jeus Nyholm, Ole Jorgensen, Joachim Ulrich von Sperling and Luc soete.

Opening Address / Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish Prime Minister, 7 -- The Knowledge-based Economy: From the Economics of Knowledge to the Learning Economy / Dominique Foray and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, 11 -- Part I. Chapter 1. Technological Change and the Rise of Intangible Investments: The US Economy's Growth-path in the Twentieth Century / Moses Abramovitz and Paul A. David, 35 -- Chapter 2. Measuring the Performance of a Knowledge-based Economy / Anne P. Carter, 61 -- Chapter 3. Towards the Knowledge Economy: New Institutions for Human Capital Accounting / Kiel Miller, 69 -- Chapter 4. The Contribution of Economic Theory to the Understanding of a Knowledge-based Economy / Giovanni Dosi, 81 -- Part II. Information and Communication Technologies Infrastructures / Introduction: G. Feme, 95 -- Chapter 5. Information Infrastructures and the Creation of New Markets: Japan's Perspective / Ken-ichi Imai, 101 -- Chapter 6. Infrastructure and the Delivery of New Services / Ian Miles, 115 -- Part III. Firm Strategies and Human Resources Development in the Knowledge-based Economy / Introduction: G. Vickery, 135 -- Chapter 7. The Role of the Social Partners in Designing Learning Organisations / Ulrich Hilpert, 143 -- Chapter 8. Organisational Foundations of the Knowledge-based Economy / John Matthews, 157 -- Chapter 9. Case Study of a Knowledge-based Company with Flexible Organisation / Lars Erik Andreason and Lars Kolind, 281 -- Chapter 10. Human Resource Development in the Knowledge-based Economy: Roles of Firms Schools, and Governments / David Stem, 189 -- Part IV. Institutional Framework Conditions for the development of the Knowledge-based Economy / Introduction: J. Gurnet, 207 -- Chapter 11. Dynamics of R&D-intensive Sectors and Science and Technology Policy / Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, 213 -- Chapter 12. The Concept of Technological Service Infrastructures: Innovation and the Creation of Good Jobs / Niels Chr. Nielson, 255 -- Part V. Labour Demand in a Knowledge-based Economy / Introduction: N. Bowers, 287 -- Chapter 14. Information Technology and the Demand for Skills: A Perspective on the US Experience / David R. Howell, 291 -- Chapter 15. Technology, Economic Growth and Employment: New Research from the US Department of Commerce / Lewis S. Alexander, 307 -- Chapter 16. Wage Distribution, Social Cohesion and the knowledge-based economy / Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Francesco Luna, 327 -- Chapter 17. Subsidising Consumer Services: Effects on Employment, Welfare and the Informal economy / Niels Kleis Frederisen, Peter Reinhard Hansen, Henrik Jacobsen and Peter Birch Sorensen, 339 -- Chapter 18. Technology, Education and unemployment / Finn Lauritzen, Jens Nyholm, Ole Jorgensen and Joachim Ulrich von Sperling, 359 -- Globalisation, Employment and the Knowledge-based economy / Luc Soete, 383.