Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities
Over the past several decades, as the pace of globalization has accelerated, operational issues of international coordination have often been overlooked. For example, the global financial crisis that began in 2007 is attributed, in part, to a lack o
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Series Editor Elias G. Carayannis, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA
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Elias G. Carayannis Denisa Popescu
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Ali Pirzadeh
Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities New Tools of Global Governance
Elias G. Carayannis School of Business George Washington University Washington, DC, USA [email protected]
Ali Pirzadeh Independent Consultant Washington, DC, USA [email protected]
Denisa Popescu World Bank Group Washington, DC, USA [email protected]
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Series Foreword
The Springer book series Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management was launched in March 2008 as a forum and intellectual, scholarly “podium” for global/ local, transdisciplinary, transsectoral, public–private, and leading/“bleeding”-edge ideas, theories, and perspectives on these topics. The book series is accompanied by the Springer Journal of the Knowledge Economy, which was launched in 2009 with the same editorial leadership. The series showcases provocative views that diverge from the current “conventional wisdom,” that are properly grounded in theory and practice, and that consider the concepts of robust competitiveness,1 sustainable entrepreneurship,2 and democratic capitalism,3 central to its philosophy and objectives. More specifically, the aim of this series is to highlight emerging research and practice at the dynamic intersection of these fields, where individuals, organizations, industries, regions, and nations are harnessing creativity and invention to achieve and sustain growth. Books that are part of the series explore the impact of innovation at the “macro” (economies, markets), “meso” (industries, firms), and “micro” levels (teams, individuals), 1
We define sustainable entrepreneurship as the creation of viable, profitable, and scalable firms. Such firms engender the formation of self-replicating and mutually enhancing innovation networks and knowledge clusters (innovation ecosystems), leading
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