order to promote learning, innovation, productivity and economic performance at the local level? Such questions are high on …

increasingly aware of the need and opportunities to improve the contribution of social science knowledge to policy making and are … be a source of inspiration on new approaches to sharing knowledge? And how can the divide between the two communities … makers at the Workshop on the Contribution of Social Sciences to Knowledge and Decision Making, Bruges, 26-28 June 2000. …

the country profiles has drawn on the work and empirical research conducted by the OECD on the measurement of innovation …