Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Key themes
6. Participation and local organisation 15
7. Workplace innovation as regional development 43
8. II. Building coalitions
9. Participation and enterprise networks within a regional context 83
10. Planning from without or developing from within? Collaboration across the frontiers of Health Care 103
11. The development of the French technopoles and the growth of life sciences 127
12. III. Capacity building
13. The third task 159
14. Linking workplace innovation and regional development 183
15. Obstacles to organisational learning in Trade Unions 207
16. Globalisation and regionalisation 233
17. Moving beyond rhetoric 263
18. IV. The policy framework
19. Regional workplace forums for the modernisation of work 289
20. Integrating workplace development policy and innovation policy: A challenging task 313
21. The UK Work Organisation Network 333
22. About the authors 347
23. Index 351