Part I: Knowledge management in the learning society Chapter 1: Understanding the role of education in the learning economy: the contribution of economics Chapter 2: The production, mediaton and use knowledge in different sectors Chapter 3: Lessons for education: creating a learning system Chapter 4: An emerging reserch agenda Part II: Production, mediation and use of knowledge: some examples Presentation of experts reports on the management of knowledge - Jean-Michel Saussois Knowledge and innovation systems - Richard R. Nelson The learning economy: some implications for the knowledge base of health and education systems - Beng-Ake Lundvall Industrial policy, competency blocs and the role science in economic development: an institutional theory of industrial policy - Gunnar Eliasson Industrial innovation and the creation and dissemination of knowledge: implications for university industry relationships - Hans G. Schuetze The changing paradigm of knowledge in health care: implications of evolutionary experience in the Unite States - Jeffrey C. Bauer Information, computerisation and medical practice in France at the end of the 20th century - Jean de Kervasdoue Higher education reserch in Europe - Maurice Kogan Notes on the production and use ok knowledge in the education sector - Martin Carnoy The production, mediation and use of professional knowledge among teachers and doctors: a comparative analysis - David H. Hargreaves Characterising the knowledge base: available and missing indicators - Dominique Foray