http://rendez.org/en/timo-hamalainen-national-competitiveness-and-social-innovation Comments for "2006/01/18 Timo Hämäläinen, National Competitiveness and Social Innovation" en http://rendez.org/en/timo-hamalainen-national-competitiveness-and-social-innovation <p>Timo Hämäläinen, research director at Sitra, gave a talk in yesterday&#39;s class that may have been the best presentation that I&#39;ve heard in Finland. It probably was the best presentation that I&#39;ve heard in a year.</p> <p>Clearly, he has depth on the subject of social innovation, based on his 2003 book on <a href="http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=2210" title="e-elgar.co.uk"><i>National Competitiveness and Economic Growth</i></a>. I was impressed by his reading of Karl Marx on <i>technological determinism</i>, because the mention of Karl Marx tends to turn off North American audiences. (Timo said that Marx&#39;s ideas on communism didn&#39;t work out, but the ideas on technological determinism have proved to be useful and durable.)</p> <p>In addition to describing a detailed framework towards a social innovation policy for Finland, he outlined a review of <a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745640129" title="polity.co.uk"><i>Europe in the Golden Age</i></a>, a recently published book by Anthony Giddens. Unfortunately, Timo said that his review was written only in Finnish. (I&#39;d like to see it in English).</p> <p>The slides are attached below, but it was a lot easier to learn from Timo&#39;s talk. (It&#39;s too bad that I didn&#39;t bring a recorder!)</p> http://rendez.org/en/timo-hamalainen-national-competitiveness-and-social-innovation#comments Lectures Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:18:19 -0600 daviding 228 at http://rendez.org