Knowledge-Bearing Elites and Industrial Competitiveness in France and Germany (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Knowledge-Bearing Elites and Industrial Competitiveness in France and GermanyThis paper argues that the politics of knowledge-bearing elites can also help resolve many of the outstanding puzzles regarding comparative industrial performance. As technological innovation takes on a growing role in competitive outcomes, the knowledge bearing occupations take a central role in public strategies for industrial change. The pathways by which these groups make different kinds of knowledge available to industrial enterprises can be decisive in the processes that lead some firms to ¿ourish and others to disappear. Since the distribution of knowledge across public and private organizations varies dramatically from country to country, it imposes important constraints on the policies that public officials can effectively employ in different countries. Yet, the distribution of knowledge is more than a fixed constraint on policy. Knowledge flows through channels that re¿ect deeply engrained ideas about the prestige and authority of different professional groups. For this reason, policy depends in overlooked ways on the self-images and prestige hierarchies that inform relations among administrative and technical elites.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.