Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by fricke, werner); 3. I. Key themes; 4. Participation and local organisation (by gustavsen, bjorn); 5. Workplace innovation as regional development (by totterdill, peter); 6. Ii. Building coalitions; 7. Participation and enterprise networks within a regional context: examples from south-west norway (by claussen, tor); 8. Planning from without or developing from within? Collaboration across the frontiers of health care: collaboration across the frontiers of health care (by ekman philips, marianne); 9. The development of the french technopoles and the growth of life sciences: the example of the evry genopole (by heil, christophe); 10. Iii. Capacity building; 11. The third task: a challenge for swedish research and higher education (by brulin, goran); 12. Linking workplace innovation and regional development: towards new roles for the university sector (by lantz, annika); 13. Obstacles to organisational learning in trade unions: the case of the dutch 'industribution' project (by klaveren, maarten van); 14. Globalisation and regionalisation: will networking help trade unions to shape change in traditional industrial regions? (by beese, birgit); 15. Moving beyond rhetoric: creativity, organisations and performance (by banke, palle); 16. Iv. The policy framework; 17. Regional workplace forums for the modernisation of work (by ennals, richard); 18. Integrating workplace development policy and innovation policy: a challenging task: experiences from and reflections on the finnish workplace development programme (by piirainen, tatu); 19. The uk work organisation network: a national coalition for working life and organisational competence (by ennals, richard); 20. About the authors; 21. Index