Papers prepared for a working conference convened in Rome in April 1996 that was the second in a series of Euroconferences entitled The globalization of technology: lessons for the public and business sectors--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Innovation systems and policy in a global economy / Daniele Archibugi, Jeremy Howells and Jonathan Michie -- Technology policy in the learning economy / Bengt-Åke Lundvall -- Some notes on national systems of innovation and production, and their implications for economic analysis / Giovanni Dosi -- Technology, growth and employment : do national systems matter? / Mario Pianta -- Regional systems of innovation? / Jeremy Howells -- Global corporations and national systems of innovation : who dominates whom? / Keith Pavitt and Parimal Patel -- Globalisation and financial diversity : the making of venture capital markets in France, Germany and UK / Michael F. Kluth and Jørn B. Andersen -- Patterns of national specialisation in the global competitive environment / Paolo Guerrieri -- The political economy of globalisation / Michael Kitson and Jonathan Michie -- The geographical sourcing of technology-based assets by multinational enterprises / John H. Dunning and Clifford Wymbs -- Innovation as the principal source of global in the global economy / John Cantwell -- The policy implications of the globalisation of innovation / Daniele Archibugi and Simona Iammarino.