Learning Economies, Innovation Systems and European Integration

This paper uses the ‘learning economy’ as an analytical framework to discuss how the process of European integration affects National Systems of Innovation. European integration is described as a process of institutional learning. It is argued that European integration will not do away with national systems of innovation in Europe and that only a very partial European System of Innovation in a narrow sense of the term is likely to emerge in the not too distant future. Learning Economy European Integration National Systems of Innovation